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...spin on the prospects of rescuing the crew suggests the Russian navy has learned the wiles of media management. To be sure, plenty can go wrong in a complex mission to establish an air link and an escape route from the vessel at a depth of 350 feet in Arctic waters. But diminishing the prospects for their survival means the news can't get any worse, only better...
...were works of art: beautifully seared scallops enveloped in a light, tomato-infused sauce, a delicate, almost-too-lovely-to-eat salad accented by white anchovies, an olive and tomato compote, and escargots oozing with butter. The second course was a triumph: lightly sauteed soft-shell crabs and an arctic char my table-mate dubbed "a sort of impetuous little salmon" (a comment that makes abolutely no sense, but he'd had a couple of glasses of very good Merlot at that point...
...American vacation at 16 days. If not for their higher unemployment rate, the Europeans would be laughing at us. Anyone who travels has noticed that whether you go to Palm Springs or Timbuktu, the French and Italians are already there. You could parachute onto an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean and find 200 Germans lounging around talking about where to go next...
...five years. Industry experts give Nokia much of the credit for the world's growing infatuation with mobile communications, and few doubt that the next phase of the wireless revolution will also be led by the Finns. A whopping 70% of the inhabitants of this small country straddling the Arctic Circle carry mobile phones--the world's highest penetration (and more than double the U.S. rate). It's a phenomenon attributable to liberal telecom-licensing policies (which stimulated early innovation) and to Nokia's effective use of its home base as a laboratory. Citizens of this otherwise low-key society...
...north, though, it's a different story. Digs at dozens of ancient Inuit sites in the eastern Canadian Arctic and western Greenland have turned up a wealth of Norse artifacts, indicating that the Europeans and Arctic natives interacted long after Leif Eriksson and his mates left. Says Sutherland: "The contact was more extensive and more complex than we suspected even a couple of months...