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...usually draw only polite murmurs from captive audiences. Yet an increasing number of photography breaks are helping amateur photographers tap their creative juices. Courses last from a weekend to a fortnight, in destinations from Bhutan, where students learn to capture the color of the Jambay Lhakhang Festival, to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They advise on lenses, composition, framing, lighting and photographic content. "It's about putting the photos in the context of the landscape and the people," says Peter Noble, chairman of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Travel Group...
...characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They advise on lenses, composition, framing, lighting and photographic content. "It's about putting the photos in the context of the landscape and the people," says Peter Noble, chairman of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Travel Group...
...conclusion of this year's annual global competitiveness survey by the World Economic Forum, which ranks countries according to economic dynamism, the quality of public institutions and technological prowess. Finland once again topped the list (ahead of the U.S.), with Sweden in third place, Denmark at No. 4, Iceland No. 7 and Norway No. 9. "There is no evidence that [high tax rates] are undermining the level of competitiveness," said Augusto Lopez-Claros, the Forum's chief economist, who notes that Scandinavian countries put tax receipts efficiently back into the economy by investing in education and infrastructure. How much...
...Trail Goes Cold With a series of high-profile acquisitions over the past two years, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has become the best-known Icelander in Britain after singer Björk. Through privately held retail and real estate company Baugur, Johannesson, 37, has snapped up the famous London toy store Hamleys, fashion chains including Karen Millen and Oasis, jeweler Goldsmiths and, last year, the Big Food Group (which owns a supermarket chain called, handily, Iceland). But now, just as he's on the verge of his biggest deal to date, a $1.7 billion takeover of Somerfield, Britain's fifth largest...
LaRouche, who warned that he would not "submit passively to an arrest," apparently blames his troubles on the Communists: a spokesman claimed Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had "demanded the head of LaRouche on a platter" prior to the Iceland minisummit. But his real adversaries are closer to home. The Leesburg raid was almost a community effort: residents, wary of the paranoid strangers in town, provided furtive assistance to investigators, taking down auto-license numbers of LaRouche followers and reporting suspicious behavior. LaRouche has "alienated a lot of the local people," said a police officer. "He called two elderly...