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PUPPY BO'S COMPETITION: World Leaders' Pets (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Nkunda, Russia, Putins Dog, Queen Elizabeth Corgis, Slideshow, Dog Bo, Australia, Obama Dog Bo, Putin Dog, England, First Animals, First Pets, Malcolm Turnbull, Vladimir Putin, Bo Obama, Obama Dog, Barack Obama, Laurent Nkunda Goat, Bo Obama Dog, Obama First Dog, Sweden Dogs, First Dog, First Dog Bo, Bo Obama First Dog, Putin, Sweden, Queen Elizabeth, Laurent Nkunda, Swedish Royal Family, Puppy Bo, Animals, World Leaders Pets, Pets of World Leaders, Bo Obama, and Other Dogs of World Leaders, World News

The Obamas finally debuted the newest addition to their family, a (possibly gay) Portuguese water dog named Bo. The highly anticipated first dog join...

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From Now on, Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle

Johann Hari | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Stress, Friendship, Consumerism, Class Warfare, United States, Capitalism, Obesity, Portugal, Sweden, World News

At the end of the failed age of market fundamentalism, the long-suppressed democratic cry for equality is emerging once again.

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Men Are Idiots to Not Fight for Paternity Leave

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Parental Leave, Fear, Sweden, The Doctors TV Show, Baseball, Dr. Phil, Maternity Leave, San Francisco Giants, Travis Stork, Buffalo Bills, Welfare State, Paternity Leave, Naps, Nba, Fatherhood, Babies, Living News

It's really about the lifestyle, the pace. It is all about naps. When, as a father of small children, do you get to nap anymore? I was home for only six months. And I got to nap almost every day.

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Top 5 Easter Traditions From Around The World

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Easter Saturday, Easter Holiday, Holidays, Easter Week, Easter, Palm Sunday, Catholicism, Easter Sunday, Bermuda Kites, Holy Week, Bermuda, Norway, Good Friday, Easter Traditions, Jesus Christ, Haiti, Easter Holy Week, Jesus, Christianity, Europe, Sweden, Easter Fires, Easter Traditions Around the World, Traditions of Easter, Easter Celebration Around the World, Easter Monday Traditions, Easter Sweden, Fun Easter Traditions, Easter Photos Around the World, World News

Easter is upon us! Easter Week began this past weekend with Palm Sunday and culminates in weekend commemorations of Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Eas...

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What Europe Really Needs is a Good Shrink

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sweden, Silvio Berlusconi, Angela Merkel, European Union, Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, g20, Nicolas Sarkozy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Shrink, World News

Europe needs to make some huge psychological leap. I am living in Sweden and honestly, President Obama seems to care more about me than any of the big European leaders.

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Sweden Same-Sex Marriage Legislation Approved

Earthtimes | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Sweden Same Sex Marriage, Sweden Gay Marriage, Foreign Affairs, Same Sex Marriage, Holland, Spain, Belgium, Gay Marriage, Sweden, Advocacy, Same-Sex Marriage, World News

A broad majority in the Swedish parliament Wednesday approved adoption of same-sex marriage legislation after a six-hour debate. Six of the seven part...

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Cock Ring Ken: Dumping Western Consumer Products in Eastern Europe?

Scott Diel | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Dumping, Sweden, Samsung, Barbie, Eastern Europe, Ken, Estonia, Mattel, Nardi, World News

I imagine manufacturers' warehouses full of defective appliances awaiting shipment to Eastern Europe where many customers haven't yet a clue they're supposed to be king. Does this, in fact, happen?

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Waffles Celebrated In Sweden

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Scandinavia, Edible Excursions, Waffles, Waffle Day, Sweden, Swedish Waffles, Swedish Waffle Day, Food, Annunciation Day of Virgin Mary, World News

March 25th is Annunciation Day of the Virgin Mary, also known as Våffeldagen or Waffle Day in Sweden. Celebrated with family and friends, Swedes gat...

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Sweden's Ice Hotel Starts Selling Tickets To Space

AP | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Tourism, Sweden Space Tickets, Sweden Tourism, Ice Hotel, Ice Hotel Space Tickets, Travel, Space Tickets, Tickets to Space, Sweden, World News

STOCKHOLM — You can sleep in eight degrees below zero, try dogsledding or go on a whale safari. Not exotic enough? Try a space trip through the ...

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Chimpanzee's plan to attack zoo visitors shows evidence of premeditated thought

Dygest.net | Posted 03.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Sweden, Home News

While other primates are known to fashion tools, Osvath says that previous examples could always be seen as responses to immediate needs, such as br...

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DANIEL WESTLING: Sweden's Princess Victoria To Marry Gym Owner (SLIDESHOW)

AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 03.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Sweden Victoria Daniel Westling, Princess Victoria, Daniel Westling, Swedish Princess Engaged, Princess Victoria Engaged, Slideshow, Princess Victoria Sweden, Princess Victoria Daniel Westling, Sweden Princess Victoria, Princess Victoria of Sweden, Swedish Princess Victoria, Victoria Sweden, Victoria Daniel Sweden, Victoria of Sweden, Sweden's Princess Victoria, Sweden, Style News

*Scroll down for slideshow* STOCKHOLM — Sweden's future queen will marry her boyfriend next year, the royal court announced Tuesday, ending yea...

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Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Judge Judith Rogers, US Appeals Court, Adel Hakimjan, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Adel Abdul Hakim, Barack Obama, Enemy Combatant, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Albania, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, Huzaifa Parhat, Sweden, China, US Asylum, Guantanamo Files, World News

First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...

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Artist Profile: Lykke Li

Steve Pristin | Posted 03.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Music, Lykke Li, Sweden, Entertainment News

When you see Lykke Li for the first time you'd think she's 16 (she's almost 23) but once you hear her songs of love, loneliness, and frustration, you know her soul is that of an experienced veteran.

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Two Meals, One Story: A Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from an American Abroad

Amy York Rubin | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia, Jews, Holocaust, Gaza, France, Israelis, Homeland, Palestinians, Jewish Culture, Barack Obama, Obama Jews, Israelis Palestinians, Exile, Religion, Shabbat Dinner, Austria, Soldiers, Egypt, Germany, Muslims, Religion and Politics, Israel, Sweden, World News

From their merging of religious tradition with daily life to their personal and historical narratives, the similarities between Muslims and Jews living in Israel is almost tragically comical.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Al Gore, White House, Women's Rights, Sweden, George W. Bush, Sex Trade, Asia, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, South Africa, Angola, Kay Hagan, Dan Quayle, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Nancy Pelosi, Racism, Nigeria, Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of the Treasury, African-American Issues, Latin America, Speaker of the House, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Netherlands, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Secretary of Energy, Condolleezza Rice, Secretary of Agriculture, Janet Napolitano, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Claire McCaskill, Secretary of State, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Arizona, Laura Bush, Gay Rights, Vietnam, Slavery, Sexism, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, Bill Clinton, Islam, John McCain, Africa, Belgium, Secretary of Transportation, Homeland Security, Attorney General, North Carolina, Colombia, Cia Director, Cambodia, Secretary of Interior, Death Penalty, Gay Issues, Politics News

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

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Sweden's Auto Bailout: $3.4 Billion

AP | LOUISE NORDSTROM and MALIN RISING | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Saab, Automaker Bailout, Sweden, Sweden Auto Bailout, Cars, Volvo, Swedish Auto Bailout, Business News

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The Swedish government on Thursday unveiled a 28 billion kronor ($3.4 billion) support package for the nation's ailing auto ...

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Eleven Other Countries with Big Auto Industry Problems

Steve Parker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Renault, Chrysler, France, Suv, Cars, Spain, Prague, Ford, London, Madrid, Liverpool, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Brussels, Zaragoza, Asia, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Czech Republic, Berlin, Saabs, Renault Nissan, Member of Parliament, Gm, Volvo, British, Angela Merkel, Jeep, Japan, Europe, Opel, China, Antwerp, Business News

Here's some of what's happening, mostly with GM, in Europe and Asia, two markets outside the U.S. hit hardest by the slowing automobile business.

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The Oxymoron of Clean Coal (Joe Biden Had it Right Before He Had it Wrong.)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Sweden, Flue Gas Treatment, John McCain, Air Particulates, Iceland, Goethermal Energy, Wind Energy, Carbon Emissions, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Vp Debate, Pushker Kharecha, Acid Rain, Joe Biden, Gasification, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Geothermal Extraction, Renewable Resources, Solar Energy, Carbon Storage and Capture, Carbon Sequestration, Mercury, James Hansen, Clean Coal, Ethanol, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Simran Sethi, Brazi, Green News

Clean coal is a lie. The catch-all term is used by politicians and coal advocates alike to lull the American public into complacency.

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Pernod Ricard Buys Maker of Absolut

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Absolut Sold, Pernod Ricard, Absolut Vodka, Sweden, Absolut, Vin & Spirit, Business News

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Spirits group Pernod Ricard SA is adding Swedish flavor to a liquor cabinet stacked with Scotch whisky, French champagne and...

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"The Less I Say The More My Work Gets Done": NBC Mystery Song — Revealed!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Elton John, City of Brotherly Love, Kiki Dee, So Not the Sixth Borough, Brian Williams, Frank Zappa, Tim Russert's Giant Noggin, Steve Capus, Billie Jean King, Denver Raquets, Sweden, Media News

Ladies and gentlemen, we stand corrected! At the end of yesterday's "NBC Nightly News" there was a song that was not the usual swelling theme music, a...

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