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...Back in Sweden, the country's National Museum of Science and Technology announced this week plans to exhibit a Pirate Bay server confiscated by police last year. "This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items," curator Nils Olander said. With any luck, online piracy will one day wind up alongside...
...fact possess a type of beneficial fat—previously thought to only be present in babies, young children, and other small mammals—that burns calories instead of storing them. The discovery was made simultaneously by three independent research teams in Boston, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Brown fat and its potentially crucial role in warding off obesity has since been the subject of three articles in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Unlike its counterpart white fat, a mere two ounces of brown fat tissue, if fully activated, could burn an estimated...
...over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden, fought in Namibia against white rule. Watching his fellow liberators turn on their own people once the war was won taught him that revolution and democracy are "incompatible," he says. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...Sven Enerbäck at the University of Göteborg in Sweden has shown, using the latest imaging technologies, that healthy adults retain a sizable amount of brown fat in the front and back of the neck. (That was a surprise, since in rodents, the depots tend to be along the back, around the shoulder blades.) Enerbäck and his team studied five patients and confirmed, using genetic analysis, that the cells around the neck were indeed brown...
...Joined the University of Michigan's Sociology Department in 1975. Has also taught at the University of Maryland and at schools in Sweden and Germany...