Word: sweden
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...weeks the scientific rumor mills had anticipated the winners of the chemistry prize. So when Robert Huber, the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry near Munich, received his telephone call from Sweden, the champagne was readily at hand. Huber, 51, and fellow West Germans Johann Deisenhofer, 45, and Hartmut Michel, 40, were recognized for revealing the "atom by atom" structure of the molecule at the heart of photosynthesis, the process by which sunlight is converted into the chemical energy that fuels plant and animal life...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--American researchers Gertrude Elion and George H. Hitchings and Sir James W. Black of Great Britain won the 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for their discoveries leading to a series of new drugs...
This year the week of hoopla is more intense than usual because the society is marking its 50th anniversary. Quartets and choruses from six countries are on hand, England's Northernaires and Sweden's Vocal Vikings among them. A grand march through downtown brings out a galaxy of past champs. The Dukes of Harmony, 1977 and 1980 gold medalists, are prominent in a blue Ford Model A. The Gay Notes, 1958 titlists, cruise by in a '58 Edsel. Old quartets endure as much for their catchy names as their sounds. The Gala Lads and Chord Busters are here. The Four...
...left. Although the Social Democrats lost three of their 159 seats in the 349-member parliament, their allies the Communists won 21, two more than before. At the same time, the Environmental Green Party captured an impressive 20 seats to become the first new party to break into Sweden's parliament since 1917. The ruling party clearly benefited from Sweden's current economic prosperity. Said Gothenburg University professor Soren Holmberg, a leading election analyst: "Swedes voted with their wallets this year...
...financed by other American workers." In a letter to his colleagues, Armey describes the slippery benefits slope that might follow, warning that parents would soon be demanding paid parental leave, then health benefits, then mandated day-care services. "I shudder to think what would come beyond that," he writes. Sweden, perhaps...