Word: denmark
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...book about Passover seders.) But generally speaking, sometimes it is good simply to be reminded of why a diverse community is good. Morris talks about how important it’s been for her to live in a large black community for the first time. For Laier, moving from Denmark to Cambridge gave her exposure to ethnic and racial diversity. “I came from a completely homogeneous society,” she says. “The only Asian people I’d ever seen were adopted Korean children...
...Steen Broust Nielsen, 36, is due to become a new father. Although the Denmark-based marketing director is looking forward to the new arrival, he will be taking his two weeks' paid paternity leave in a haphazard fashion. "We have an interim report coming up, so I can't possibly stay away too long," he says. Perhaps "half a day here and half a day there, when it's convenient." Despite the fact that in addition to those two paid paternity weeks Danish law allows both parents to share 32 weeks' state benefit-supported leave during the first nine years...
...week, Cyprus had been a major stumbling block to Turkey's E.U. ambitions. The E.U., U.N. and U.S. pressured Turkey to use its influence on Turkish Cyprus to bring about a yes vote. "People would say, 'You may be fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria [E.U. membership conditions laid out in Denmark in 1993], but what about Cyprus?'" said Gül. "Now Cyprus is no longer an obstacle." No sooner had the last no vote on the U.N. plan been counted than Turkey was reminding the world that, despite opposition at home, it had pulled out all the stops...
...HANS ISLAND Denmark and Canada exchanged words in March over this 1.3-square-kilometer scrap of Arctic wasteland between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Both sides are playing down the dispute, but Hans could be the tip of the iceberg: Canada will launch operation Narwhal, its largest-ever war games in the Arctic, this August as part of a long-term plan to reassert its sovereignty in the north...
...just might be the Martin Luther of the environmental movement. A statistician from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Bjorn Lomborg examined the state of the world, using reputable sources and long series of data in his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and found a surprising thing: by most measures the planet is getting healthier--less pollution, more forests, more food per head. He exposed the often misleading and selective use of scientific evidence by environmental pressure groups, urged us to be optimistic rather than despairing about environmental problems, and set out what should be the true priorities of environmental action...