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National Geographic : 1993 Aug
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"Many of ourpatients say later on a cloud-draped mountainside between a snowfield and a winter is harder every year," steep ledge. The scene was like the dream sequence in a surrealist adds BengtKjellman of St. Swedish film: In the dim light I could make out dozens of other Gorans, noting that Swedes people, weary and wet, pitching tepee-like shelters in a light rain tend to withdraw in winter and next to an enormous wire-fence corral. call in sick more often. Swe- Soon more helicopters arrived, driving the reindeer before den's suicide rate, on the other them-a thousand frantic silhouettes fleeing the machines over hand, is highest in spring. Stig- head. As the animals bolted into the corral, John and I helped pull a matized in the 1950s as the wire fence across behind them. "Let's get some rest while they set world "suicide capital," Sweden tle down," John said. "We're going to need it." is currently ranked 15th. We took shelter in my tent and spent about an hour talking and watching the rain flick at the purple nylon roof, to the rhythm of wind whipping grass and reindeer hoofs thumping against mud and rock nearby. John is a playwright. He writes radio plays in the Sami lan guage, a Finno-Ugric tongue closer to Hungarian than Swedish, Sweden: In Search of a New Model 17
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