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Former President of Iceland Vigdis Finnbogadottir, addressed a crowd of more than 100 people celebrating the establishment of the Council of Women World Leaders at the Taubman Center...
...people who live beneath it. In Italy five active volcanoes are being watched, the most menacing of which is the temperamental Vesuvius. In Japan 86 active volcanoes are packed onto an archipelago smaller than California. Other volcanoes sputter and steam in places as diverse as Ecuador and Alaska, Iceland and Indonesia. All told, there are more than 1,500 active volcanoes around the globe--550 or so on land and the rest underwater--that could put the lives of 500 million people at risk...
...globe should need another umbrous island, anchored by one man's imagination halfway between Iceland and Greenland, is not something novelist (and former TIME contributor) Brad Leithauser bothers to explain. If you don't like Freeland, the gray and chilly outpost of which he is the sole curator of history, customs and current events, then chase your moonbeams in Lake Wobegon or your copperheads in Yoknapatawpha County...
...reader ventures through territory like this, the question arises, "Yes, it's clever, but what's the point?" With Leithauser's novel, that question is precisely not the point. The author, who has spent time in Iceland and the Faroes, invented Freeland not to write a political parable but because the more he thought of this imagined place, the more it fascinated him. Its texture is rich and believable. Early in his career the President bankrupted the small nation to build an old folks' home at the base of a big mountain. Now, "mountain-viewing" is local slang for dying...
URUGUAY 95% BENIN 88 ICELAND 87 SLOVENIA 85 CHILE 79 COSTA RICA 79 ARGENTINA 79 BRAZIL 78 PORTUGAL 77 ISRAEL 76 UNITED STATES...