Prostitution across the Nordic countries.
Since 1999, it has been illegal in Sweden to buy sexual services, and the Norwegian Government proposes to introduce a similar law. However, there is insufficient knowledge about the extent of prostitution and which measures are most effective. The Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK) has...

Medtech Insight/Windhover Information: European Medical Device Market Poised to Grow.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 August 2008-Medtech Insight/Windhover Information: European Medical Device Market Poised to Grow(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Fueled by factors such as aging populations across Europe, increased spending on medical technologies, and the recent accession of more fast-developing, former Eastern European states into the EU,...

Toward a global PhD?; forces and forms in doctoral education worldwide.
9780295988023 Toward a global PhD?; forces and forms in doctoral education worldwide. Ed. by Maresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund. U. of Washington Press 2008 344 pages $30.00 Paperback LB2386 With the...

Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen and Elisabeth Mornet, eds. Les elites nordiques et l'Europe occidentale (xiie-xve siecle).
Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen and Elisabeth Mornet, eds. Les Elites nordiques et l'Europe occidentale (xiie--xve siecle). Actes de la rencontre franco--nordique organisEe a Paris, 9-10 juin 2005. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007. Pp. 316. It is no longer unusual for scholars from the Nordic countries to publish...

Tissue tug-of-war: a comparison of international and U.S. perspectives on the regulation of human tissue banks.
ABSTRACT Every day in the United States and around the world, patients and research participants at hospitals and doctors' offices give biological samples, whether in the form of surgically removed cancer tissue or a routine blood sample. Many of these patients are entirely unaware that their tissues...

Four "poverty traps" are part of conundrum for foreign aid.
Europe celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan last year. It was a celebration worth having. The Marshall Plan represented a stunning departure of foreign policy in all modern history. Never before had a conquering nation reached out its hand in such beneficence to its vanquished foe. For...

Jason Lavery. The History of Finland.
Jason Lavery. The History of Finland. Greenwood Histories of The Modern Nations. Eds. Frank Thackeray and John E. Findling. Westport: Greenwod. 2006. Jason Lavery's The History of Finland contributes a concise, fluid, comprehensive, and accessible account of the country's history to the literature on Finland and the...

The University of the Arctic: from vision to reality.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, access to post-secondary education in the Circumpolar North remains a significant challenge, particularly outside the Nordic countries. Underscoring this challenge is the often-noted observation that Canada is the only circumpolar country that does not have a university in its own Arctic region....

Ketchum and Geelmuyden.Kiese Join Forces.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Ketchum, one of the world's leading public relations agencies, and Geelmuyden.Kiese today announced that they have signed an agreement to partner in the Nordic region. The agreement makes Geelmuyden.Kiese the exclusive affiliate of Ketchum in all Nordic countries. "With Geelmuyden.Kiese as...

Nordic Folk Churches: A Contemporary Church History.
Nordic Folk Churches: A Contemporary Church History. By Bjorn Ryman, with Aila Lauha, Gunnar Heiene, and Peter Lodberg. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. xiv + 173 pp. $20.00 paper. This thin volume is a welcome addition to the literature in that it introduces the contemporary Nordic "folk...