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...Dutch DNA that fans talk about one particular race, the "Eleven-City Tour," with the sort of reverence normally shown by global soccer fans for their favorite teams. The Eleven-City Tour is a 125-mile skate over frozen lakes and canals in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. Since all the water has to be frozen at once, the race is hardly an annual event. In fact, conditions haven't permitted an Eleven City Tour since 1997; the Dutch fans clearly long for another one. On a piece of paper Doekle Terpstra, head of the speed skating governing body...
...decades, traffic engineer Hans Monderman had a hair-raising way of showing off his handiwork to anyone who took the trouble to visit his native northern Dutch province of Friesland. He would walk backward, arms folded, into the flow of traffic, and without horn-honking or expletives, drivers would slow or stop to let him safely cross to the other side. Monderman's stunt was an act of faith in the concept of "shared space," a radical street-design principle he quietly pioneered in more than 120 projects across Friesland. By the time he died of cancer last month, Monderman...
Inevitably, of course, there are abuses, and flagrant ones are prosecuted. Sippe Schat, a doctor from northern Friesland, goes on trial later this month for the alleged murder of a 72-year-old cancer patient who had seemed in good spirits just before she died in a nursing home. According to prosecutors, Schat simply gave her a lethal shot of insulin without consulting anyone and left her to die alone, allegedly telling a nurse as he left, "If she hasn't died by 7 a.m. tomorrow, give me a call...
During the Winter Hunger of 1944, children from the ravaged west of the country were taken in by farmers and fishermen in the northern province of Friesland, where food was plentiful and the German presence slight. 12-year old Jeroen (Maarten Smit) goes to live with Hair (Feark Smink) and Mem (Elsje de Wijn). Smit and director Roeland Kerbosch do a good job of depicting Jeroen's multifold alienation. Though his mother has sent him to Friesland for his own good, Jeroen feels abandoned by her. He finds himself a city kid in the country, where everything, even the language...
...river's tributaries from the poisonous flow, other waterways appear threatened. Dutch officials say the Ijssel River, which branches off the Rhine in southeastern Holland, is now carrying part of the slick. They also expect the contaminated Rhine water to enter the shallow sea north of the Friesland and Groningen provinces. That could pose new dangers for birds, fish and seals...