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...Denmark is the world's leader in wind power, start with a three-hour car trip from the capital Copenhagen - mind the bicyclists - to the small town of Lem on the far west coast of Jutland. You'll feel it as you cross the 4.2 mile-long (6.8 km) Great Belt Bridge: Denmark's bountiful wind, so fierce even on a calm summer's day that it threatens to shove your car into the waves below. But wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories the size of aircraft hangars build the wind turbines sold...
Border Issues In "A Great Divide," Jyoti Thottam complains about the barbed-wire fence that India is erecting [Feb. 16]. She fails to acknowledge that erecting the fence has reduced the flow of illegal migrants into India. I also couldn't understand the complaint about exporting cows. Respect for religious sentiments has to be a common goal, not simply accommodation from one side to facilitate the other. Girish Vaidya, AURANGABAD, INDIA
...Lebanon, they cannot legally buy a house or apartment and remain barred from some 70 professions. Lebanon's fragile sectarian political system, balanced between Christians and Muslims, has been unable or unwilling to absorb so many Muslim refugees. So neither Sulhani, nor his children, nor his grandchildren, nor his great-grandchildren have Lebanese citizenship, despite the fact that all but the family patriarch were born on Lebanese soil. "My life in this country has been one heartbreak after another," says daughter Ahlam. "I have no good memories...
...League Rookie of the Week as well as Turfer/New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) Co-Player of the Week honors. Although he is ranked as the No. 4 incoming freshman in his class by Inside Lacrosse, Crimson coach John Tillman praised Cohen for his humility and not letting his great success impede his mindset or adjustment to the college game. “Coming into Division I lacrosse from high school takes a long time to adjust to how fast the pace is—how well-conditioned you have to be, how strong you have...
...this great combination of an incredibly sweet guy with also this very wry sense of humor,” Seider said. “He was both very funny and also very sincere...