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...militia checkpoints and roving bands of technicals--pickups mounted with heavy artillery and carrying armed thugs--have been replaced by disciplined Islamic troops. The city's ports have reopened, buses travel the roads by day, and Somali families stroll the sidewalks by night. Barring the notable exceptions of a Swedish journalist and an Italian nun who were recently murdered, there's no denying Mogadishu's new semblance of order. "This is an area of the world that we would obviously like to see stable, and [the Islamists] are doing that to some extent," says a Western diplomat. "So if what...
...center’s guests, such as French anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Stéphane Breton, and the former French ambassador to the U.S., Jacques Andréani. The first of a series of dinners with faculty and dignitaries is scheduled for Nov. 15, and will include the former Swedish minister of finance, Par Nuder. The center has also scheduled thesis writing workshops, providing guidance to juniors who are choosing between topics and applying for funding and to seniors who are fine-tuning their arguments. An internship program is also in the works with Harvard alumni in Europe. Students will...
...cartoon, which depicts Kim Jong Il with a mushroom cloud emerging from his head, shows similarities to numerous cartoons that also show depict Kim’s hair similarly, including ones that ran in The Hartford Courant, The Ottowa Citizen, French newspaper Le Temps, and Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet...
...modest amount of weight between pregnancies could lead to serious complications in childbirth, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study, published in the Sept. 30 issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, examined a population of more than 150,000 Swedish women who had their first and second births between 1992 and 2001. Researchers found that women who gained weight between pregnancies were at a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and stillbirth. “It turns out that women do not need to become...
...force, only to realize an hour later that he has made a terrible mistake. He comes back, of course, drawn by his guilt over a friend?s murder and eventually finds himself on the money trail of a smiling man whom Mankell sees as the picture of contemporary Swedish capitalism: perfect tan, private helicopters and a pair of homicidal mercenaries hovering in the background...