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...spent nuclear fuel--1,760 lbs. of the stuff--was never unloaded. Adding to the worry, K-159 sank in the waters between Russia and Norway, an area crisscrossed by commercial shipping lanes and fishing boats. Norway's Fisheries Directorate says it is waiting for reports from Norwegian radiation authorities to assess whether the K-159 has leaked radioactive material...
...chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents (such as sulfur mustard), tear gas and other chemical irritants once the property of Nazi Germany - have lost their casings, leached into the sea and been caught in fishing nets. "In the Baltic," says Commander...
...Serbian pop charts is an unlikely place for a Norwegian journalist. But Åsne Seierstad's brief incarnation as a Balkan songstress, with her 2001 hit Laganese, is just one indication of the lengths to which she'll go for a story. While researching her book on Serbian society, With Their Backs to the World (2000), she paid a visit to singer Rambo Amadeus, whose musical style she describes as "acid-horror-funk." Amadeus balked at being included in the book - he just didn't give interviews. But a Norwegian folk song he heard her singing caught his ear. "Sing...
LAILA DAVOY, Norwegian legislator and sponsor of a bill requiring publicly traded companies to appoint women to 40% of their board seats by July...
...certain amount of resistance, irritation with the late-night partying," says Sarah DeKlein of Aisleaway, a London-based company. But some destination weddings are simple to arrange. When Brits Lucy Poulton and James Howard decided to tie the knot this year, they put together a wedding in the Norwegian ski resort of Hemsedal in less than two weeks. All they needed was to provide proof that they were single and to show up with two sponsors, whom they recruited from the resort's staff. The ceremony, in a mountaintop chapel nestled in the snow, "was more special than I could...