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...remote and barren highlands of eastern Iceland, the herds of reindeer and flocks of pink-footed geese suddenly have some company. Hundreds of workmen have moved into the unspoiled valleys northeast of the Vatnajökull icecap, where glacial rivers flow through magnificent canyons in a starkly beautiful volcanic landscape. The men are working on the Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project: a vast network of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, power stations and high-tension lines to support a new aluminum-smelting plant for the U.S. multinational Alcoa on a fjord some 70 km to the east. At a total...
...building its plant, Alcoa gets access to Iceland's cheap and clean hydropower and a new harbor facility to be built nearby. The company says that when production begins in 2007, the plant will be one of the most efficient, safe and environmentally friendly in the world. Aluminum is smelted from an oxide called alumina, which is refined from bauxite ore - and Fjardaál will be capable of churning out 322,000 metric tons of aluminum each year. Alcoa says it will recycle materials and use the most eco-friendly production technology to control fumes and minimize waste discharge...
...this way with people. He could say that 'I understand where you are coming from,' rather than say, 'You are right, and I have been wrong all of these years.' The next thing you know, he had a very good relationship with Gorbachev, a very personal one." At the Iceland summit, says Bush, Reagan made the rather "romantic" proposal to Gorbachev that they "get rid of all nukes," a wonderful but impossible dream then. Says Bush of his predecessor: "I never had any misgivings about his courage. I never had doubts that if push came to shove, he would...
...view is to be true to the culture itself,” Nair says. “When you can capture the culture it becomes universal. That’s the difference and that’s the power...people really identify with it whether from Hungary or Iceland...
...Europe Registered Partnerships In 1989, Denmark became the first country to institute legislation granting registered same-sex partners the same rights as married couples. Adoption, artificial insemination and church weddings were not part of the deal, though by 1999, couples could adopt each other's children. Norway, Sweden and Iceland all enacted similar legislation in 1996, and Finland followed suit six years later. In 2001, Germany enacted a law that allows same-sex couples to register for "life partnerships," but a second act - promising equality on taxes, pensions and child custody - was rejected. Since 1999, France has granted cohabiting couples...