Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City Art Dealers Carole and Alex Rosenberg cultivated a tangle of weeds at their house in Water Mill, Long Island. "I read about English gardens," Carole explains. "They are too fussy for me." Someone suggested ornamental grasses from the Washington-based landscape-architect firm of Oehme, van Sweden, as a solution. The Rosenbergs' sloping lawn is now intersected and ringed with free-form gardens of 3-ft. grasses, Scotch Broom covered with saffron blossoms, blue allium balls, mounds of soft green sedums and spikes of silver-green lavender. "I wanted something to work with the wind," says Carole, reeling...
Every spring, residents of the tiny Danish island of Anholt, midway between Denmark and Sweden, eagerly await the arrival of the harbor seals that breed on the island's sandy beaches. This year, however, they have been witnesses to a mysterious season of death. So far, more than 150 dead and dying seals and their prematurely born pups have washed ashore; in the past few weeks, Lighthouse Keeper Einar Boisen and others have been picking up as many as 17 dead seals a day. Says Boisen: "We've started calling ourselves the death patrol...
...virus, for example, killed more than 500 harbor seals along the coast of New England from Cape Cod, Mass., to Maine over a period of ten months beginning in December 1979. This time, researchers believe, the deadly virus may have originated in slaughterhouse refuse deposited in open dumps along Sweden's western coast. It may then have been transmitted by sea gulls to the seal breeding grounds offshore...
...sudden bloom of yellow algae is spreading a carpet of death in the region. Believed to be stimulated by fertilizers that wash into the North Sea, the algae are suffocating salmon and trout in fish farms, as well as other marine life along 1,000 miles of coastal Denmark, Sweden and Norway...
...earnings from the networks' burgeoning overseas sales are more significant "in the promise than in the reality," says NBC News President Lawrence Grossman. What the export market does provide, however, is an elite audience, composed largely of international businessmen, government officials, journalists and opinion makers.The houses of parliament in Sweden and Norway receive CNN, and Italian President Francesco Cossiga is said to be a fan. When CNN aired a briefing on the Middle East by Secretary of State George Shultz last February, Jordan's King Hussein, watching in Paris, quickly called the network's Atlanta headquarters to respond...