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France and Finland are thinking it over. Spain has balked because of legal ramifications. Belgium and Austria have curtly concluded that America should clean up its own mess...
What is the worst karaoke performance you've seen? I went on this cruise ship for a story I did for Wired, a karaoke competition on a boat from Finland to Estonia and back again. It was an international competition and it got very rowdy and dramatic and ridiculous and I loved that, but at one point there was a woman who came out dressed as Barbara Streisand in Yentl and I think she started singing "Feelings." I was just like, what is going on? Is this something I'm not understanding because of a cultural difference? Is it common...
...fake. The English language didn't even exist yet, so what's all the hullabaloo about? But seriously, I wish you had said more about the inscription - for example, which language it was in or what the actual words were, transcribed into our alphabet. Eila Kolu, KITEE, FINLAND...
Three Scandinavian countries—Norway, Finland, and Sweden—took top honors among the 130 countries in the study, while Saudi Arabia, Chad, and Yemen were deemed the least equitable, ranking 128th, 129th, and 130th, respectively...
...Female leaders inspire whole societies (and help pad the numbers): The authors assigned heavy points to countries where women were in charge of government. Countries with female presidents or prime ministers include: #2 Finland, #5 New Zealand (Prime Minister Helen Clark was recently voted out of office), #6 Philippines and #8 Ireland...