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...last autumn with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He demurred, making the bulletproof argument that government doesn't control the free press. But it has broken out with new and somewhat mysterious force since a Norwegian periodical reprinted the cartoons on January 10. Arab Ambassadors were recalled from Denmark, protest marches were under way in Kuwait and Damascus, and armed gunmen shut down the office of the European Union in Gaza City. Boycotts of Danish products spread throughout the Middle East, and death threats were issued against journalists...
...vessels, and workers are ill-equipped, without proper tools or protective clothing. But with an insatiable demand for steel in Asia's booming economies, scrap prices have soared. Scrap now sells as high as $400 a ton in India, compared to roughly $150 a ton in Europe. "In Denmark you almost have to pay to get rid of a ship; in India they have a meaningful value," says Melchiors. He would like the imo to focus on forcing the shipbreaking yards to accept a higher standard of worker safety. Until that happens, though, shipbreaking seems bound to remain a race...
...pure childlike curiosity.” During his first week-long trip to the Arctic, Nweeia spent a week alone with an Inuit guide. On his second trip to the Arctic, he brought his friend and experienced photographer, Joseph Meehan. Teams of scientists from Canada, Denmark, and the United States accompanied him on his last two trips. On the fourth and final expedition this past summer, Meehan said he witnessed one of the most interesting uses the narwhals find for their tusks. “I saw tusking happen, once,” he said. “The tusks...
...rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated, polyester-powder-coated Cake and Sun tables, which catch light to cast shadows in magical and dramatic shapes...
...religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren't any of them unemployed and angry about living in a nation that went to war in Iraq over...