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Summer brings to mind the town's old Norwegian bachelor farmers, stolidly harvesting wheat with their antiquated, clattering six-foot combines. The Norwegian bachelors were not impressed by modern 20-footers. Sure, you got done faster, but that just meant waiting longer till it was time to go to bed. This is a good laugh line, as close to a knee slapper as Keillor lets himself get in the monologues. But like his uncle Lew, he tells stories, not jokes, and he goes on to say that "the clatter brings back memories of old days of glory in the field...
...Rubbing shoulders with the more traditional caf?s on Sankt Hans Torv (or Sankt Hans Square) is Kaffeplantagen, tel: (45) 3536 2232, a caf?-cum-flower-shop that opened in early 2004. Norwegian owner Henriette Arff had already decided to sign the lease on a flower shop with her Danish business partners when she realized that she wasn't getting anywhere in her search for the perfect cup of coffee. The solution was to merge the flower business with her vision of a decent caf?that means Kaffeplantagen's customers can purchase a potted azalea along with kaffe og kage (coffee...
...fuse" your coffee drinking with some other activity, from shopping to getting your laundry done. Rubbing shoulders with the more traditional cafés on Sankt Hans Torv (or Sankt Hans Square) is Kaffeplantagen, tel: (45) 3536 2232, a café-cum-flower-shop that opened in early 2004. Norwegian owner Henriette Arff had already decided to sign the lease on a flower shop with her Danish business partners when she realized that she wasn't getting anywhere in her search for the perfect cup of coffee. The solution was to merge the flower business with her vision...
...lawyers' fax machine began spewing out page after page of blank paper. Hundreds of bogus magazine subscriptions began showing up on their doorstep. And technicians began devising tools that would prevent Canter and Siegel from making good their threat. The most ingenious: a piece of software written by a Norwegian programmer that came to be known as the "cancelbot" -- a sort of information-seeking robot that roams the Internet looking for Canter and Siegel mass mailings and deletes them before they spread...
...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Snow blindness, frigid temperatures, polar bears - not exactly everyone's idea of a relaxing round of golf. But at the Spitsbergen Open, these hazards are par for the course. The tournament, which takes place April 10-14 on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, some 1,000 km south of the North Pole, is open to professional and amateur golfers from anywhere in the world. Up to 34 competitors will play on a nine-hole green - or rather, white - built on a frozen fjord off the island of Spitsbergen...