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...begins a remarkable, brooding detective thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish writer whose work is new to the U.S. The story's grim background is Denmark's exploitation of Greenland, the bleak northern island given its bosky name by Erik the Red, an early real estate promoter who hoped to attract settlers. Most recently, Danes have mined and exhausted Greenland's vast reserves of cryolite, a mineral used in the refining of aluminum, while giving only perfunctory and highly patronizing attention to the culture of the native Inuit...
...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...
...President on his visits, and the other grandiose appurtenances of the presidency. Even Bill Clinton has benefited from this aspect of his office and so appears somewhat more imposing and regal than would the former Governor of Arkansas if he were treated like, say, the Prime Minister of Denmark. Nevertheless, as his circumstances this week all too readily indicate, Clinton is not in a position to exploit another quasi-monarchial institution that Presidents have often turned to good advantage: an institution we might call the Summer Palace...
...National Security Agency reluctantly made public an immense and successful effort by the U.S. to spy on its World War II allies. The documents, known as the "Magic intercepts," are decodings of the secret messages of 33 other nations, including France, Denmark, Mexico and the Netherlands. Britain and the Soviet Union were not represented...
Another therapy consists of a gel that contains an antimicrobial called metronidazole. Marketed in Denmark, and just approved for use in Sweden, Ireland and Britain, the gel can be squirted into the spaces between teeth and gums. In a U.S. study of 100 patients who had completed a round of oral antibiotics, Walter Loesche of the University of Michigan and James Giordano of the University of Detroit School of Dentistry administered metronidazole on thin patches of an organic material called ethyl cellulose. Preliminary results indicate that the combination treatment saved 94% of teeth scheduled for surgery, and the teeth remained...