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That could some day become a standard question among men and women. Writing in the British journal Lancet last week, Researchers Christer Bergquist, Sven Johan Nillius and Leif Wide of the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, reported progress toward an unusual goal: the development of a nasal spray contraceptive. In their work, they used a derivative of a hormone known as LRH (for luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone). In high daily doses the experimental chemical inhibits ovulation by curtailing the secretion of still other hormones called gonadotropins, essential for the maturing and release of the eggs...
...many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial thalamus, an area of the brain responsible for registering deep sustained pain; in the amygdala, a region of the brain's limbic...
...Uppsala, Sweden...
Wall, who began life as a poor farmer's son near the town of Uppsala, has become Sweden's highest-paid executive. He earns $340,000 a year, though taxes gobble up 80% of it. In addition, Wall controls 15% of all outstanding Beijerinvest shares, which at current market prices are worth about $3.6 million. In marked contrast to the stereotype of the dour Swede, Wall is a chipper, handsome, nattily dressed man who favors loud ties and modern art. A striking transparent torso of a woman stuffed with American $1 bills adorns his Stockholm office. Wall...
...series of lectures across the U.S., Uppsala University Professor Karin Westman Berg is challenging the popular view of young Swedes as symbols of sexual liberty, if not license. In studies of Swedish sexuality, she has found that most Uppsala students believe that a couple ought to know each other from five to seven months before having sex. Among Swedes, she says, 80% of the males and 90% of the females consider fidelity "absolutely essential" in marriage. Westman Berg acknowledges that marriage is under attack in her country and that a fifth of all Swedish babies are born to unmarried parents...