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...Icelanders as possible, as well as access to their health records. Parliament granted permission to tap into those records, along with an exclusive license to assemble, maintain and market the resulting data. Thousands of citizens donated blood, and many bought shares in deCODE as well. But those shares, which rose to a high of $65 in a frenzied run-up in 1999 and 2000, plunged to as low as $2 in the collapse of the dotcom bubble. They're around $9 today--and deCODE still hasn't turned a profit. Investors lost a lot of money, and the firm...
...nothing else, the editors of Jyllands-Posten--a right-of-center newspaper based in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city--knew that publishing cartoon images of Muhammad would get them attention. That was the point: last September the paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, invited 40 Danish cartoonists to submit caricatures of the Prophet in a deliberate attempt to provoke a debate about what Rose perceived as the stifling of coverage of issues related to Islam and Denmark's 200,000 Muslim residents. A leading Danish religious historian, Tim Jensen, warned that some Muslims would take offense at the images...
...smaller, tropical delegations were crowd pleasers ? Kenya with two athletes got big cheers, as did Senegal, with three. New Zealand wore menacing black. Team USA brought much of the crowd to its feet. The athletes entered under the five giant Olympic rings, which represent the five continents and rose through the early part of the ceremony and then took on their traditional colors in a burst of flame...
...Staff writer Julian M. Rose can be reached at jrose@fas.harvard.edu...
Could Canada seduce Leonard Cohen away from the glamour of life in Los Angeles, where he has lived for more than 20 years? Our most famous troubadour got an early valentine from his home country this week. It wasn't a box of chocolates and a long stemmed rose, but five of his songs were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Sunday. The gala event, which honored Cohen and seven other songwriters and performers, included performances of his music by Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson and k.d. lang, a poignant tribute by former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson...