A Culture of Contribution
We are shifting from a global culture of consumers, whether for material wealth or power or spiritual states, to a culture of contribution.
We are shifting from a global culture of consumers, whether for material wealth or power or spiritual states, to a culture of contribution.
AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
STOCKHOLM — Sporting a beard and an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps finished third in the 100-meter medley at a World Cup short-course meet a...
Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
A partnered lesbian will serve the Church of Sweden as bishop of Stockholm, the capital city. ...
Essence | Essence | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
If you're interested in Michelle Obama's fashion sense and iconic trendsetting style, then you will not be disappointed by Mary Tomer's new book, "Mrs...
Johan Rockström | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
To reduce the risk of tipping into the unknown, we need a new global deal for sustainable development. Copenhagen should be viewed as a first necessary step toward this new deal.
Rob Asghar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
What truly deserving champion of peace did the Nobel committee slight this year in the process? None to my knowledge.
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
STOCKHOLM -- Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for ma...
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home
STOCKHOLM—As a world-renowned expert on lady-part maladies, Dr. Victoria Lozoff led a team of hoo-ha doctors to develop new strategies for detec...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home
STOCKHOLM -- Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering...
Wend | Wend | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home
And you thought Portland had a lot of cyclists... This photo was taken at the Central Station in Uppsala, a city about an hour north of Stockh...
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home
STOCKHOLM--The unclaimed Nobel Prize for medicine will allow one lucky scientist to never have to do another research project again....
AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home
Swedish police faced stinging criticism Thursday for failing to stop helicopter-borne gunmen from pulling off a Hollywood-style heist against a cash depot while blocking an air pursuit with a fake bomb.
Investigators had made no arrests as of Thursday morning, a day after the predawn raid on the G4S cash storage facility in southern Stockholm. Two men detained for questioning Wednesday were no longer suspects in the robbery, police spokesman Ulf Goranzon said.
Swedish media mixed awe of the robbers' military precision with anger against the police for not mounting a more effective response. The bandits prevented an air pursuit simply by placing a fake bomb at a poorly guarded helipad outside the capital.
"It's just embarrassing that criminals can knock out the police with tricks from a book for boys," columnist Lena Mellin wrote in tabloid Aftonbladet.
In an editorial, Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet police have to become better at protecting themselves and their property "or they won't be able to protect society and citizens."
AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid, set off explosions to get to the millions inside and escaped by hoisting themselves and their haul back up on rope lines.
All in 20 minutes, and all while Stockholm police were grounded by a fake bomb planted outside their own helicopter hangar.
Sweden has had its share of high-profile heists against cash storage facilities, post offices and armored cars in recent years, but police said Wednesday's commando-style robbery was the first to use a helicopter.
"There are about 100 hardcore criminals in this country who have specialized in this type of serious robbery," said Jerzy Sarnecki, professor in criminology at Stockholm University. "They are definitely no amateurs."
He said every successful heist inspires others to follow suit, which explains why they have become relatively frequent in Sweden.
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home
Sweden's foreign ministry has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Stockholm in a bid to solve the developing crisis between the two nations over a rece...
Diane Tucker | Posted 08.19.2009 | World
Updates, and video screen grabs from the ceremony in Paris, follow the post. AUSTIN, TX -- When a reporter asked Vaclav Havel to comment on Iran's p...
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Reminded of what America stands for -- a nation of pure individuals -- I admit I fell prey to "socialism" after all those years as a "liberal."
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
Applications to study in the US are up 30 percent in the Nordic countries, and interest in Sweden has grown by 20 percent. Placement agencies are calling it "Obama fever."
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2009 | Home
A defense lawyer for one of the four men sentenced to jail in the Pirate Bay case demanded a retrial on Thursday, saying the judge's membership in sev...
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were...
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay, ...
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
A server used by notorious BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay that was seized by police has been added to Sweden's National Museum of Science and ...
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living