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...westward the Vikings went. Their first stop, in about 860, was the Faeroe Islands, northwest of Scotland. Then, about a decade later, the Norse reached Iceland. Experts believe as many as 12,000 Viking immigrants ultimately settled there, taking their farm animals with them. (Inadvertently, they also brought along mice, dung beetles, lice, human fleas and a host of animal parasites, whose remains, trapped in soil, are helping archaeologists form a detailed picture of early medieval climate and Viking life. Bugs, for example, show what sort of livestock the Norse kept...
...there is no childish frivolity on display as she navigates her newly acquired apartment in a leafy suburb of northwest London. (Her home is a five-minute drive from Willesden Green, where her novel is set and where her mother and two younger brothers reside.) Smith strides past the living room, which is cluttered with half-opened boxes and iconography (a portrait of Billie Holiday, another of Marilyn Monroe and magazines featuring Madonna on the cover--"It's my life's ambition to meet her," she explains). Entering a tiny study, she plops herself down and begins rolling a cigarette...
Airplane pilots call it the "blue hole." Residents of Sequim, Wash., just call it wondrous. In the middle of the rainy Pacific Northwest--just a few miles from the Olympic Mountains and a unique North American rain forest that gets 150 in. of rain a year--sits tiny Sequim, which basks in about 300 days of sunshine a year. Sequim, like another Pacific Northwest town we recommend, Bend, Ore., lies in a "rain shadow." Sequim is shielded by the Olympic Mountains and sees only about 16 in. of rain a year, about as much as Los Angeles...
...Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 comedic thriller North by Northwest, Cary Grant is pursued across the country after the becoming victim of mistaken identity. Yesterday afternoon, after a disastrous weekend at Yale, a Harvard baseball team in search of its offensive identity tried to avoid going South by Northeastern...
This sleek new European-built train may be the best--and cheapest--way to see the Pacific Northwest. Subsidized by the states of Oregon and Washington, the nine-hour trip costs only $44 for coach, and you can buy segments (Portland to Seattle costs $21). With current schedules, you need to stay overnight in Seattle, but that means you can sight-see and sample local salmon washed down by a tangy microbrew. You can bring your bike along, at least as far as the Canadian border, stowing it on one of the Cascades' bicycle racks ($5 extra; reserve ahead...