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...20th century was not good to Europe's once mighty kings and queens. Old World royals lost most of their monarchical mojo, with their powers now limited to the purely ceremonial, as in Sweden, or to such roles as the Spanish King's command of his country's armed forces. The last absolute monarch left on European soil is Pope Benedict...
...peace - in his will to honor "the greatest benefit on mankind." It all came as quite a surprise. "It took five years to get the prizes started, because everyone had to figure it all out," says Hans Jornvall, secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden - the group that chooses the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Nobel initially donated 35 million Swedish kronor (about $225 million today); the prizes come from the fortune's annual interest...
Another, less hopeful possibility that gets discussed a lot is the decade-plus malaise Japan fell into in the 1990s after financial and real estate bubbles collapsed there. Then there's the less well known but more encouraging Scandinavian experience of the early 1990s. Sweden in particular is now held up as the model for how to restructure a busted financial system. How did that work out for the Swedish economy? It shrank for three years running, from 1991 through 1993 - ending up 4% smaller before it began growing again...
Thank you for the best cover of TIME I have ever seen. An absolutely brilliant composition! Yngve Helgesson, RÖSTAANGA, SWEDEN...
...place that supports terrorism and threatens world interests by hosting the pirates that launch attacks on one of the world's busiest trade routes. Those are real threats. That the international presence is about to cease entirely in Somalia is outrageous. Daniel Hokfelt, JÖNKÖPING, SWEDEN...