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...draw up a global to-do list ranking, by return on investment, 36 proposed solutions to earth's 10 biggest challenges. Would reducing greenhouse gases or communicable diseases benefit us more than better education or sanitation? It would be good to know, since organizer Bjorn Lomborg, director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute, claims that taking up all 10 tasks would cost $1 trillion, while global overseas aid registers at under $60 billion each year. "As long as we're not spending more, we have to prioritize," he says. So will the developed world tick off the items...
...MARRIED. Australian MARY DONALDSON, 32; to Denmark's CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK, 35; in Copenhagen. The couple, who met in a bar during the 2002 Sydney Olympics, was wed in a lavish royal ceremony. The onetime real estate agent is now in line to be Queen...
...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...