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...McDonald's is interested not only in better serving road-warrior diners but also in the savings to be had from a network where everything down to the milkshake machine's maintenance schedule can be accessed at a moment's notice. The company has Wi-Fi in Australian, Japanese, Swedish and Taiwanese restaurants...
...agents will be singing and chess players will be dancing when Chess begins its two week run on the Loeb Mainstage tonight. This rock musical, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the Swedish rock group ABBA, with lyrics by Tim Rice, tells the story of American and Russian chess players competing in a world champion chess match at the height of the Cold...
...Elizabeth Smart brainwashed, as her father insists? Does she need to be deprogrammed like some runaway Moonie or Hare Krishna? Or is she simply a victim of the famous Stockholm syndrome, named for a 1973 Swedish bank robbery in which the hostages began to identify with their captors...
Sweden's Wallenberg family is one of the most powerful in Europe. Through family foundations, it controls or holds substantial influence over about 40% of the entire capitalization of the Swedish stock exchange. (Even the exchange is part of a company that the Wallenbergs control.) Investor AB, the family's industrial holding company, dates from 1916. It faced an unprecedented attack two years ago, when Swiss financier Martin Ebner built up a 10% stake and called for Investor to be broken up in the name of improving shareholder value. Ebner, overstretched financially, has since had to sell or reduce many...
Over the years, breast implants have inspired envy, ogling and insecurity--as well as health concerns and multimillion-dollar lawsuits. But suicide? It seems so, according to a study of 3,521 Swedish women who had breast implants between 1965 and 1993 for purely cosmetic reasons (and not, for example, to replace breasts lost to cancer). Researchers found that surgically enhanced women were nearly three times as likely to commit suicide...