Clean Living In Finland's Seaside Capital, THE MOSCOW TIMES

From: The Moscow Times (Russia) | Date: December 30, 2003| Author: Catherine Santore | Copyright information


The Moscow Times (Russia)

12-30-2003

The white Lutheran Cathedral on Senate Square is one of Helsinki's
best-known landmarks, vying for attention with the city's Russian Orthodox
Uspensky Cathedral.
In the humming quiet of a spacious tram, three teenage girls giggle in
grammatically perfect, accented English. If you think that these are friends
from different countries communicating in a language that they all have
in common, think again. They...

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