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These young women and men are living with local families and caring for their children as part of a unique cultural exchange and childcare program. Claudia, an au pair from Sweden said, “One of the reasons I became an au pair was to experience life in...
Tags: au pair, Amy Henderson, American, Sweden, Stockholm, Zionsville Indiana, Thanksgiving, Meals, Childcare, Thanksgiving dinner, Domestic work, Child care
Reporting from Burma is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and the members of one media group have paid a high price. On Thursday night in London a documentary tracing the lives of eight Burmese children left orphans after Cyclone Nargis won,...
Tags: Democratic Voice of Burma, aye chan, chan naing, DVB, Rory Peck Trust, Sweden, Stockholm, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Burma, Entertainment Culture
A tidal wave is washing over Europe, and it has already begun to transform the digital music landscape overseas. In the next few months, the company expects to make its way to the U.S. Spotify is a program similar to iTunes that lets users listen to...
Tags: U.S. Spotify, Spotify Premium, Andres Sehr, Sweden, Stockholm, Web 2.0, Pandora, Virtual communities, Business Finance, Last.fm, Freeware, Technology Internet, Digital audio, Spotify, Entertainment Culture, Online music stores
We�ve wanted to do this for several years,� Sveriges Television (SVT) project leader Leonard Wallentin told The Local. �Computer gaming is no longer a small subculture, but has really transformed into a mass movement. A huge number of young people in...
Tags: SVT, Dreamhack, Leonard Wallentin, Sweden, Stockholm, Sveriges Television, Swedish culture, Technology Internet, Jᅢᄊnkᅢᄊping County
An essay is an act of imagination — it still takes quite as much art as fiction: Suffering from "novel nausea", Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promise. From The American Scholar , Bob Thompson on covering the " book beat " and how to...
Tags: Vladimir Nabokov, Sweden, Stockholm, British Book Awards, Postmodern literature, Martin Amis, Lepidopterists, Zadie Smith, Stieg Larsson, John Banville
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana interact before posing for a group picture at the EU-Russia summit...
Tags: eu summit, Russia-EU, European Union Foreign Policy, Moscow, Stockholm, Russian, EU-Russia, Sweden, Gazprom, European Union, Politics, Third country relationships with the European Union, European Union¬タモRussia Common Spaces, Foreign relations of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia
It also can be pervasive. "E-mail rumors can go out to 300 people at once," Ms...To combat bullying and address the new aspects brought about by technology, the district has instituted the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, underwritten by Highmark's...
Tags: Seneca Valley, Ms. Vitale, Sweden, Stockholm, Education, Social psychology, Social Issues, Persecution, Aggression, Bullying, Abuse
Shane Warne hair-loss remedy ads have too much spin, says ad watchdog Treatment endorsed by cricketer does not cause hair to grow back – the effects are merely cosmetic, says ASA Shane Warne: previous ads featuring the Australian spinner had been cleared...
Tags: ASA Shane Warne, Carl Howell, Graham Gooch, Sweden, Åsa, Advertising Standards Authority, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Shane Warne, British media
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore says he's optimistic that a global climate treaty will follow the Copenhagen conference next month. Bob Thirsk, the Canadian astronaut with the longest time in space, is eagerly anticipating seeing his family again....
Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Nortel GSM, LM Ericsson, Kapsch CarrierCom AG, Buy Nortel, gsm business, U.S, Sweden, Stockholm, Nortel, Ericsson, Business Finance, Technology Internet, Global System for Mobile communications, Bell System, GSM, Kapsch, Environment, Space Shuttle program, 3GPP Long Term Evolution, Human spaceflight, GSM-R
I�m really happy, really proud,� Pontus Mannestig, manager of the L�ngholmen Hostel, told The Local. Situated near a beach on an island of the same name, L�ngholmen Hostel is housed in the former Kronoh�ktet, a prison built in the 1840s which saw its...
Tags: STF, Sweden, Stockholm, Adventure travel, Hospitality Recreation, Hostel, Backpacking