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A new published report from international researchers marshals every line of evidence in defense of fairness in women’s sports.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) developed its 2021 framework on sex and “gender” around the concepts of fairness, inclusion, and non-discrimination. This framework leaves it to each sport’s governing body “to determine how an athlete may be at a disproportionate advantage against their peers.” However, they admonish sports organizations against “targeted testing … aimed at determining [athletes’] sex, gender identity and/or sex variations.” Instead, it’s up to each sport to “[provide] confidence that no athlete within a category has an unfair and...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Shares in Scandinavian Airlines dropped more than 90% on Wednesday after the ailing carrier announced new shareholders in a restructuring scheme that will see the company delisted and existing ownership stakes erased. The rescue deal involving airline alliance Air France-KLM and private equity firms Castlelake and Lind Invest, which became investors alongside the Danish state, was presented late Tuesday. The deal means that SAS will receive $475 million in new equity and $700 million in convertible debt. Scandinavian Airlines will be taken off the stock exchange in the second quarter of 2024 and no payment will...

If your family's from the Midwest (especially Wisconsin or Minnesota, both of which have a significant Scandinavian-rooted population), you might remember your grandma boiling up big, big batches of what she called Scandinavian coffee (or perhaps Norwegian or Swedish coffee, if she wanted to get specific). If she was making it for a church get-together, she might have called it church basement coffee and brought along one of these heavenly potluck dishes. But what was that secret-ingredient coffee that Gran made? If you peeked in the percolator, you might have seen it. The secret ingredient in Scandinavian coffee Eggs! They...

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D) has said that socialist policies characteristic of countries like Sweden should be implemented in the U.S. As a Swede, I would strongly advise against this. The worldwide socialist movement praises the Scandinavian countries for their high living standards and welfare. Easy to do for someone who has never lived in Sweden or read a book on Swedish history. First off: The success of Sweden predates the welfare state. In reality, the economy began to fall behind in the 1960s when the state rapidly expanded. Moreover, Sweden enjoyed the highest growth in the industrialized world between...

PhysOrg.com) -- Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction of agriculture. This is one conclusion of a new study straddling the borderline between genetics and archaeology, which involved Swedish researchers and which has now been published in the journal Current Biology. "The hunter-gatherers who inhabited Scandinavia more than 4,000 years ago had a different gene pool than ours," explains Anders Götherström of the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University, who headed the project together...

Racist Hate Mail Against Poulsbo Festival Backfires http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=43345 May 9, 2006 By Tracy Vedder POULSBO - The words are ugly and vicious, and they sent a chill through a local festival. Racist hate mail sent to Poulsbo is directed at a young African-American woman who is "Miss Viking Fest". But the hate mail has sparked an outpouring of love. "Little girls," says Jasmine Campbell, " I think they recognize me when I have my crown on. They're like 'Wow!' It feels really good to say hi to them." Campbell loves being this year's Miss Viking Fest. The yearly Poulsbo festival...

From London soup kitchen to a raft in Scandinavian sea By Amy Iggulden (Filed: 04/05/2006) Police are trying to solve the mystery of how a homeless man living rough in London ended up on a makeshift raft drifting in the sea off Scandinavia. The castaway, who claimed that he had been drifting for four days, was traced back to a soup kitchen in central London. George Williams was dehydrated and frostbitten when rescued The centre identified him as George Williams, 46, who had been living on the streets for several years. Staff said he was last seen there two months...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004001958,00.html Twitcher's cat eats robin By CHRIS RICHES A RARE robin landed in Britain from Norway — and was eaten by a birdwatcher’s cat. The exhausted creature — one of only eight seen in this country in five years — had flown 400 miles in 15 hours. But a birdwatcher was horrified to see her pet with the bird dead in its mouth in her garden. The unnamed woman wrote to the British Trust of Ornithology to record the sighting — and confess her cat had killed the striking Norwegian robin. The woman, of Eccles, Gtr Manchester, also enclosed the...

When you marry a Norwegian, you gain more than just a bride or groom. When John Hinsch, a German, married Jan Hilan, who is both Norwegian and Swedish, he acquired a set of Christmas food traditions that encompasses what many consider the best and the worst of culinary options. The best: Who could turn down rosettes and krumkake, lefse, meatballs and rommegrøt? The worst: By reputation - lutefisk. Songs, jokes and entire humor books have been written poking fun at the shimmering white fish which is a staple in Scandinavian-American households at Christmastime. "I ate about a half-teaspoon of lutefisk...