Driver rescued after buried in snow for 61 days - body slowed like hibernating animal

A driver who was buried for 61 days in a 7ft snowdrift was finally rescued alive from his car in Umea, Sweden.

All he had to stay alive in temperatures of -30C were cigarettes, comics and a sleeping bag! The 44-year-old had survived by eating snow and experts believe the cold slowed down his body like a hibernating animal.

SUN STORY


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Man-made organ transplant - world first - cancer patient gets artificial windpipe

The world's first man-made organ has been transplanted into a cancer patient in Sweden.

The patient received a windpipe created from their own stem cells and an artificial "scaffold".

The Telegraph reports: "Prof Paolo Macchiarini, a Spanish surgeon, carried out the 12-hour transplant operation. He praised the construction technique, which meant that 'custom-made' windpipes could be produced within a week."

TELEGRAPH STORY

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Gender-free school - no 'him' or 'her' - just 'hens' and 'friends'

A pre-school in Stockholm, Sweden, has become gender free, with teachers avoiding the use of "him" and "her". Instead, they refer to pupils as "friends" or by their first names.

They also call them "hen" - which is, according to the BBC, a genderless word borrowed from Finnish.

Ah, doesn't that just prove the difficulties you face when trying to be all politically correct and manipulative of nature... "hen" might be all right in Sweden, but imagine if you called everyone that in English-speaking countries. Rather defeats the object, doesn't it?


BBC STORY

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