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...When the show can't recreate the film, it plunders the Python repertoire for correlatives. Instead of the mock-Swedish subtitles from the film's opening, the show begins with a Finnish fish-slapping dance - this from a song Palin wrote called "Finland" and a bit in episode 28, when John and Michael ritually smite each other with fish to the music of Edward German. Later, a sound-off marching song flicks a reference to Palin's "Lumberjack Song" with the shouted cadence: "Become a knight and you'll go far / In suspenders...
...Greg Foltz, a neurosurgeon at the Seattle Neuroscience Institute at Swedish Medical Center who studies incurable brain tumors, the mouse atlas functions as a springboard for better understanding how these difficult tumors develop and grow. "We need clues," he says. "When a patient comes in and has a tumor removed, we take that tumor and complete a genomic study, but all we have is a database of genes. The best analogy I can come up with is that this genomic data is like having just the names in a phone book; it's only a list. We want to know...
...Globe Snow glistening under a Swedish moon inspired Torbjörn Lundell to come up with GloFab, a light-radiating "fabric" made[an error occurred while processing this directive] from slender fiber-optic cables. Here, the material is draped around a transparent acrylic sphere to create a squiggly glitter ball. Other applications include curtains and wall hangings, yet Lundell's ambition is to get the yarn to change color in response to music. That man should run a disco. www.glofab.se...
...Swedish furniture giant Ikea has done just that, launching a division called the Small Biz Network to accommodate entrepreneurs starting ventures. A quarterly electronic newsletter invites small-business owners into a local Ikea store for a networking event. Brands that encourage consumers to join their retail communities are hoping for a greater degree of customer loyalty in return. For many, it's too early to predict results, but when asked if she would try out any of the other assembly-meal places opening up around town, Feldpausch replied, "I would feel disloyal if I were to go to another...
...chair, established through donations from members of the Swedish community and friends of Lindh, is named in honor of Lindh, a Swedish politician who served as Minister of the Environment before becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs. Lindh was assassinated...