Word: icelander
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...Iceland Cometh. The value of Iceland's krona has melted a bit. But if you have any cash left, there's a special being offered by IcelandAir. A round-trip ticket from Boston or New York to Reykjavik (a four-hour flight), plus three nights at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, Scandinanivan breakfast buffet included, costs $549. Book by Oct. 21 for travel through November...
...REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND Frozen Assets In the Icelandic language the words for money and sheep are the same. But under Iceland's current economic conditions, goes a joke doing the rounds, only one will put food on the table and a coat on your back (as long as you eat mutton and wear wool). With a flagging currency and a crippled banking industry, Icelanders are fast losing their jobs, savings and businesses. The government fears that some may even be losing their minds: a few days ago, the Icelandic Ministry of Health set up an emergency mental-health center...
...Minister of Health Gudlaugar Thór Thórdarson agrees that Iceland has sustained a blow to its psyche, "especially when Gordon Brown uses antiterrorism laws against Iceland," he says, referring to the British Prime Minister's move to invoke an antiterrorism law to freeze Icelandic companies' assets in the U.K. "The people here not only suffer financially - it also makes us feel bad." Indeed, says psychologist Ólafsson," Icelanders have always seen themselves as an independent people, and now we simply can't be as self-sufficient...
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Minister of Health Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson agrees that Iceland has sustained a blow to its psyche - "especially when Gordon Brown uses antiterrorism laws against Iceland," he says, referring to the British Prime Minister's move to invoke an antiterrorism law to freeze Icelandic companies' assets in the U.K. "The people here not only suffer financially - it also makes us feel bad." Indeed, says psychologist Ólafsson, "Icelanders have always seen themselves as an independent people, and now we simply can't be as self-sufficient...