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Overweight or Obese Persons In Mid-life Have A Greater Risk Of...

Individuals with higher mid-life Body Mass Index in the 1960s have been found to have lower memory and thinking skills and a sharper decline in these abilities in old age, compared to those with lower BMI in mid-life. "The adverse effects of being overweight and obese are not limited to cardiac function, but also extend to brain function," says ...

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

MediLexicon

Lonely Old Men

Professor Bo Malmberg and Professor Gerdt Sundstrom at the School of Health Sciences in Jonkoping, Sweden have studied loneliness among older people.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Krantz named as higher education minister

Liberal Party Riksdag member Tobias Krantz will take over as Sweden's Minister for Higher Education and Research, the Swedish government announced on Wednesday.

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Mon Jun 01, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Unpaid stonemason reclaims gravestone

When a stonemason did not receive payment for his work he took the law into his own hands and repossessed the grave stone from churchyard in Gnosjo in southern Sweden.

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Sat May 30, 2009

The Auto Channel

Volvo Group to Launch Electric Hybrid Technology for Energy-Efficient Forestry Machinery

Sveaskog, a publicly owned Swedish forest company, has started using the first example of the El-forest F14 forestry machine, the world's first forwarder to utilize electric-hybrid technology.

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Thu May 28, 2009

Newsroom Finland

Finland's Mets liitto and Vapo mull biofuel facility

Finnish wood-processing group Metsaliitto and government-controlled Vapo are considering building a wood-based biofuel facility in the Baltic Sea region, Metsaliitto said in a statement Thursday.

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Sun May 24, 2009

CJR Daily

Professor: 'Journalists Deserve Low Pay'

Journalists should not be paid well, argues Robert G. Picard, a professor of media economics at Sweden's Jonkoping University, for the csmonitor.com, because journalism has "no intrinsic value" and its "instrumental value" has been eroded.

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Fri May 22, 2009

Ben Kepple

Rubbing Salt in the Wound

AS A WRITER, I know perfectly well the importance of a good lead. Properly executed, it can draw in readers to a story they would otherwise ignore.

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Thu May 14, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Swedish neo-Nazi to set up shop in Berlin

Top German politicians have protested after it emerged that a prominent Swedish right-wing extremist with ties to German neo-Nazis is relocating to Berlin .

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Thu Apr 23, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Munksj Paper in Fitchburg closing June 30

FITCHBURG _ Munksjo Paper Inc. told its employees today that it will be closing on June 30, according to Gene King, chief union steward at the River Street plant.

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Tue Apr 21, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Credit card fraudsters target Ikea

Police have launched a credit card fraud investigation after employees at an Ikea in central Sweden discovered a suspicious device attached to one of the store's card payment machines.

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Fri Apr 17, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Foreigners buying up more Swedish holiday homes

An increasing share Sweden's holiday homes are owned by foreigners, according to new statistics.

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Wed Apr 15, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Prosecutor abandons suicide rape case

The prosecutor in a high-profile rape case in Jonkoping where a 15-year-old victim committed suicide before the trial, has withdrawn from the case.

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Mon Mar 30, 2009

Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com

Hat Trick Dick hopes to return for SEL finals

Aftonbladet's Tomas Ros reports that Red Wings prospect "Hat Trick Dick" Axelsson hopes to return to Farjestads BK's lineup for the Swedish Eliteserien finals against HV-71 Jonkoping.

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Thu Mar 26, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Vomiting bug hits hundreds of pizza fans

A visit to a pizzeria in Jonkoping in southern Sweden has left almost 600 customers clutching their stomachs.

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Tue Mar 24, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Sweden's big freeze set to stay

Motorists are being advised to exercise caution as meteorological agency SMHI forecasts that the weather in Sweden will remain bitterly cold for the rest of the working week.

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The Local - Sweden's News in English

The best live music in Sweden: April -June

It's not only warmer weather on the way to Sweden. A host of internationally renowned music acts play live throughout the country in the coming months.

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Mon Mar 23, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Charges filed over Swedish teen sex ring

A Stockholm -area businessman has been charged for using the internet to pimp Swedish school girls for violent group sex.

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Business Wire

Husqvarna AB: Annual General Meeting of Husqvarna

The Annual General Meeting of Husqvarna AB will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2009, at the Elmia Congress Centre, the Hammarskjold Hall, Elmiavagen 15 in Jonkoping.

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Tue Mar 17, 2009

Associated Content

Album Review: Narnia--Enter the Gate

Released in the spring of 2006, Enter the Gate is the fifth studio album from the Christian metal band Narnia.

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