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...Like a fox. Opera Software is not only surviving but thriving. For the past five years the company has been producing a small but fast and nimble browser to rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. Opera's eponymous product has received rave reviews, and the Norwegians haven't spent a dollar on marketing.?"Opera's awesome stability and speed make it a worthwhile download," wrote the computer and technology website cnet. The latest version, Opera 5.0 was downloaded 2 million times in the first month after its release in December. Not bad for a young Norwegian...
...Larson did very well at the camp, but we already had the central defender from the Norwegian national team [Gro Espeseth] and then we drafted [former W-League Boston Renegades defender] Erica Iverson," Farmer said. "I was a little surprised [Larson] wasn't drafted, but you have to understand, a lot depends on what combination of players have already been allocated...
...LANKA Hopes Grow Adding to the impetus for peace, the opposition People's Alliance said it supported government efforts to end the country's 18-year civil war, including the possible lifting of a ban on the Tamil Tiger group. Norwegian-led truce talks were also being held in London...
...element of my Scandinavian pride (I am of Swedish heritage). I remember reading about vastly outnumbered ski-borne Finnish troops' earning the nickname "white death" for repeatedly confounding and outmaneuvering the Russian army during the Second World War. I also remember an account from 1943 of a group of Norwegian commandos who successfully skied overland all the way to Sweden (over 250 miles) after blowing up a Nazi heavy water facility that was a key component in Hitler's attempt to manufacture an atomic bomb. More than a few sports have some type of military component (e.g., the marathon...
...Perhaps the presence of monitors on the ground would help them form an assessment - commissioners Mitchell, former U.S. senator Warren Rudman, European defense supremo and former NATO secretary general Javier Solana, former Turkish president Suleiman Demirel and Norwegian foreign minister Thorbjorn Jagland aren't about to don flak jackets and head into the battle zone - but the commission's priorities appear to be more diplomatic than investigative. Mitchell's team has spent the last two days meeting with Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, searching for solutions that will reduce the level of violence...