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...Lucy” and “Old Joy.” Oldham’s music laces granola folk with violins and soulful vocals to create slow, poignant rhythms. One of his albums, “The Letting Go,” was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland, and indeed, many of his songs transplant this glacial desolation to the American landscape of front porches and dark country nights...
Eurovision, which most famously gave the world ABBA, is a much-anticipated annual pop music competition with contestants representing countries from Iceland to Turkey, from Morocco to Israel. No one takes the contest more seriously than the Russians. Last year, for example, they sneered when Ireland's representative in the Eurovision finals was a hand puppet named Dustin the Turkey. Russia's own contestant was Dima Bilan, a star so established that a BBC commentator sniped that it was as if Britain had sent Amy Winehouse to the competition (well, if she was allowed to travel). Bilan...
Japan's gross domestic product dropped 13% in the fourth quarter. The Russians are so short of cash, they are signing a lopsided 20-year deal for oil sales to China in exchange for a $25 billion loan. Iceland is bankrupt. The World Bank predicted on March 8 that in 2009 the global economy will shrink for the first time since the 1940s...
When the Vikings arrived in Iceland, their culinary concerns revolved around food preservation, not flavor. That led to distinct specialities - still enjoyed by Icelanders today - such as hrútspungar (ram's testicles pickled in whey) and hákarl (rotted shark meat that reeks of ammonia). Thankfully, the advent of refrigerators, along with abundant natural fisheries, has decreased dependence on such idiosyncratic fare, and visitors today will be able to peruse an Icelandic menu without too much trepidation. (Watch TIME's video "In Iceland, Frozen Accounts, Boiling Assets...
...joke told around Ireland's watercoolers and in its office canteens in January went like this: "What's the difference between Iceland and Ireland? One letter and six months...