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...into high gear. Today, if it's not raining or snowing (or both), views from Reykjavik's harbor are relatively clear. Icelanders hope steam can pull them through tough times again. "The Icelandic power industry will be one of the pillars to carry us out of this crisis," says Asgeir Margeirsson, CEO of Geysir Green Energy. As Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir, Iceland's Environment Minister, puts it: "Icelanders think about this resource in almost biblical terms...
...Trail Goes Cold With a series of high-profile acquisitions over the past two years, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has become the best-known Icelander in Britain after singer Björk. Through privately held retail and real estate company Baugur, Johannesson, 37, has snapped up the famous London toy store Hamleys, fashion chains including Karen Millen and Oasis, jeweler Goldsmiths and, last year, the Big Food Group (which owns a supermarket chain called, handily, Iceland). But now, just as he's on the verge of his biggest deal to date, a $1.7 billion takeover of Somerfield, Britain's fifth largest...
...time they enter the labor market, many are overtaken by men, who become doctors, engineers and computer technicians. Educators say they watch many bright girls suddenly recoil in the face of real, head-to-head competition with boys. In a math class at a Reykjavík school, Asgeir Gurdmundsson, 17, says that although girls were consistently brighter than boys at school, "they just seem to leave the technical jobs to us." Says Solrun Gensdottir, the director of education at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: "We have to find a way to stop girls from dropping out of sciences...
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