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There's a clip from a Norwegian sketch-comedy show making the rounds on YouTube. It's called "Middle Ages Tech Support," and it's about a medieval monk who's having trouble with a new piece of technology, something called a "book." He gets his tech-support guy in to walk him through it. "Compared to the scroll," the monk complains, "it takes longer to turn the pages ..." And so on. Maybe it's funnier in Norwegian...
...Former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of the envoys, said in an interview Wednesday that Ban wants to get a picture of the concerns of leaders of the nations most responsible for climate change, those most affected by global warming, and the major developing countries, such as China, India and Brazil...
...washed down with glasses of Hansa, the local brew. On Thursdays, crowds pack the place for Valle's raspeball-potato-and-flour balls served with turnip mash-but weekends are the busiest, when both locals and tourists turn up for the true flavor of Norway. "You can't buy Norwegian food in the [supermarket]-it's always going to be pasta or pizza," says Valle. "For 20 or 25 years we've been so focused on food from the rest of the world, we've nearly forgotten our own tradition." Pingvinen reminds Norwegians what good taste was, and still...
...Norwegian government will construct a seed vault, to be completed in 2008 on the Arctic island of Svalbard, that would preserve the world's agriculture in case of a global climate crisis...
...deer, animals raised in captivity are rarely able to adjust to the rigors of the wild. Efforts to reintroduce orangutans into Indonesia's fast-disappearing forests have met with scant success, for example. Even Keiko the killer whale (the inspiration for the Free Willy movies) ended up in a Norwegian harbor, cadging food from fishermen and tourists. Says Jim Harkness, former head of the WWF in China: "Reintroduction is a heroic measure, costly and high risk. It should be a last resort that is attempted only when the wild population is no longer viable...