Word: sweden
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...Scandinavian Rail Pass is good for 21 days' unlimited rail travel (first class about $220) in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland...
During the late stages of the Viet Nam War, military conscription was so despised by so many Americans that it spawned a new class of nonviolent criminals: young men who tore up draft cards or fled to Canada or Sweden to avoid induction. Since then, the U.S. has shifted to an all-volunteer force, and no one has been called up since 1972. But last week Congress reluctantly was again considering reinstating the draft, or at least some of its preliminary steps...
...many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial thalamus, an area of the brain responsible for registering deep sustained pain; in the amygdala, a region of the brain's limbic...
...false notion, which undercuts political support for increasing the aid effort, is that the U.S. is still a leader in the field it pioneered. Not so. In the early 1960s the U.S. spent up to .5% of its gross national product on foreign aid but today allocates only .27%. Sweden gives 1.01% of its G.N.P., and Denmark donates .6%. Thirteen nations, including France, Canada, Belgium, Britain, West Germany and Austria give a larger share than the U.S. Says Gilligan: "Last year the people of the U.S. lost more money at the gambling tables in Nevada than we have...
...Sweden's Slavic Mission made the mistake of sending two well-informed officials into the Soviet Union. Police held them for nearly six months' interrogation and extracted damaging details on a number of networks, as well as plans to have young, Bible-toting Christians blitz the 1980 Moscow Olympics...