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These days, there is a resurgence of regional pride and cultural identity across national lines as a reaction to globalization. Mathias Dahlgren closed his acclaimed Spanish restaurant Bon Lloc and has opened a "new Swedish identity" restaurant, Mathias Dahlgren, in Stockholm's Grand Hotel. Significantly, Nordic chefs are looking not only in their own backyards but also to one another for inspiration and to their governments for support. The Nordic Council of Ministers, recognizing the marketing tool that gastronomy can be, enthusiastically promotes the interests of new Nordic food as official policy. Pekka Terava of Helsinki's Olo restaurant points...
...bolstering Moscow's claims that Artur Chilingarov, a member of Russia's parliament, enlisted fellow parliamentarian Vladimir Gruzdev and the commander of the Mir 1 submersible, Anatoli Sagalevich, for last month's aquatic assault on the North Pole. With the funding (and presence aboard) of a Swedish millionaire and an Australian adventure-tour operator, the expedition trailed an icebreaker to the pole, where Sagalevich piloted one of two submersibles to a depth of 13,100 ft. (4,301 m), planted the Russian flag and then skillfully resurfaced through the shifting holes in the ice. Chilingarov said the flag...
...were the only nation to see the Arctic as a place to burnish national pride. The Norwegians have their new gas field, and Denmark is pursuing proof of its own claims just as doggedly as the Russians - though in a more consensual, Scandinavian mode. The Danes enlisted both a Swedish and a Russian icebreaker for its expedition to the largely uncharted waters north of Greenland to document what Science Minister Helge Sander refers to as "our hopefully justified claim of a continental shelf from Greenland toward the North Pole." The Danes know that scientific inquiry alone will not determine...
...Also available online is Drunk Bill Murray Almost Fights a Guy, Break.com's blurry, 41-sec. clip of a fella who looks and sounds like Murray caught cranky on a New Orleans street. It appears that no one, however, recorded what could have been Murray's Zapruder tape--when Swedish police detained the Caddyshack star last month for driving a golf cart erratically. He says he wasn't drunk, just golfing...