Beckham flew to Turku in Finland to be operated on by leading orthopedic surgeon Sakari Orava.

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Beckham's wife, Victoria Beckham has also arrived in Turku to visit her husband, Finnish media reported.

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"It's been hectic - more of less what I expected, " reflected the former Cowdenbeath and TPS Turku boss.

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The team, led by Mauri Valtonen of Turku University in Finland, set up their observations for a predicted pulse on 13 September 2007.

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Indeed, Mauri Valtonen, of Turku University in Finland, said that although he doesn't feel particularly Martian, the inward route is actually the more probable one.

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On the southwest coast alone, the Turku Archipelago is made up of 20, 000 islands and islets (just a bit smaller than the population), molded by the Ice Age.

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You can rent one in Turku, a relatively large city on the mainland, and take the bridges and ferries that connect to and between the islands in a circular route.

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In October 2006 he resigned his post at Central Park to take over at TPS Turku and steered the Finnish side to a third place finish before moving again to Edinburgh.

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His Viipuri City Library of 1927-35, the Turun Sanomat building of 1928-30, for a newspaper in Turku, and the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium of 1929-33, were assured exercises in the new, white-walled, abstract aesthetic.

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He left his hotel in Milan on crutches on Monday morning and is scheduled to arrive in Finland to undergo surgery at the Turku clinic of knee specialist Dr Sakari Orava in the afternoon.

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