Word: swedes
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...screenwriting debut with the schoolroom drama Torment through his swan song Saraband, released in the U.S. in 2005, were about the plague of the modern soul - the demons and doubts, secrets and lies that men and woman evaded but were forced to confront, to their peril. This agonized Swede was a surgeon who operated on himself. He cut into his own fears, analyzed his failings, perhaps sought forgiveness through art. He may never have found that expiation; he lived his last years alone on remote Faro island, speaking only rarely with his old friends and colleagues. But when he died...
...Finland are pairing up with emerging economies (and recent E.U. inductees) like Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to transform a region once better known for herring, bad weather and cold war naval maneuvers into a global economic dynamo. "It's a hot spot for growth," says Peter Egardt, a Swede who heads the Business Advisory Council at the intergovernmental Council of Baltic Sea States...
...benefited from advantages shared by the region as a whole, including enviable political stability, social cohesion and a sound regulatory environment. Equally key, they boasted high levels of education and innovation, giving rise to outfits like the Internet telephone company Skype, which was founded by a Dane and a Swede and was based on computer code written by Estonians. Established multinationals, meanwhile, such as Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ikea, with their global customer networks, strengthened the region's links to the outside world. And never underestimate the dumb luck of geography: 90% of the world's trade...
...could reproduce the salty taste of canned soups, for instance. Givaudan is also developing low-sodium, low-sugar and low-fat flavors intended to replicate the taste and texture of their full-figured counterparts. "We know how ice cream needs to taste to please an Italian, American or a Swede," says Givaudan spokesman Peter Wullschleger. "Taste and smell are cultural...
...Harvard. “Swedish liberals are a breed close to extinction” Alsonso said, referring to Blix. “I’m proud to have him.” “He’s probably the most internationally well known and well-regarded Swede,” he added. Though Blix devoted most of his lecture to the discussion of nuclear proliferation, he referred more than once to his work in Iraq, saying that “truth was a casualty” of the war there. “The main evidence...