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• The people of Iceland have spoken | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Icelanders gathered at a national assembly to brainstorm and plan a vision for the country. Will their wishes become policy? Ever since Icelands spectacular economic meltdown last year, the Icelandic people, weary of the lack of action by their authorities, have rallied in various forms of civil action. We initially ...
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• Brangelina Tries Jewelry Design; Lindsay Lohan For Bebe? [Rag Trade]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have designed a fine jewelry collection for Asprey , which goes on sale this week. The line, themed around snakes and called "The Protector," starts at $525; all proceeds go to support Jolies childrens charity. [ WWD ] After decades of marketing skin-lightening creams, like ...
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• Iceland Car Rental making winter travel safe and reliable

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  Iceland is world renowned for being home to some of the most beautiful sites and natural wonders attracting hundreds of thousands of visits every year. Most tourists come in the summer months with fewer thinking about exploring the country in the depths of winter when the spectacular waterfalls, glaciers or geyser ...
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• IJsland verkozen tot topreisbestemming biedt magische ervaring met noorderlicht

  
  eNewsWire — Authority: 127
  IJsland is deze winter de ideale bestemming voor het aanschouwen van het noorderlicht. Dit heeft het te danken aan haar perfecte locatie net binnen de noordpoolcirkel en aan de toonaangevende reisgids Lonely Planet, die IJsland op nummer 1 plaatst als geldbesparende vakantiebestemming in Noord-Europa voor 2010. Het ...
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• Of Icelandic fashion, Time and Bonus

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  The recent spate of retail news in Iceland continues with Time Magazine’s look at Icelandic fashion designers and the proposed takeover of some of the country’s biggest retailers by the man on the street. Time Magazine this weekend published a feature on its website ( here ) which looks at the Icelandic fashion ...
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• Everyone’s a winner

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  More people in Iceland will benefit from Wednesday’s large lottery win than just the elderly couple in Kopavogur who won ISK 107 million. In fact the cost of household debt in foreign currencies could decrease by ISK 300 million as a result. The couple, who are both old age pensioners, won the money in ...
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• Jar City

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 130
  by Arnaldur IndridasonJar City follows Detective Erlendur as he investigates the seemingly random murder of an old man with an ash tray.  What he uncovers is a whole lot more sordid, complicated, and grim.  A few thoughts:I haven’t read or seen very many Nordic mysteries–Death in Amsterdam, The Girl with the ...
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• McDonald’s Abandons Iceland

  
  Wend Blog — Authority: 555
  It’s official – even McDonald’s has pulled out of the nearly bankrupt nation. The fast food giant recently closed its business in Iceland, due to the financial crisis making it too expensive to operate here. Just one year after a financial crash that almost left the island bankrupt, it’s hit with yet another ...
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• New Icelandic supermarket brings politics to the high street

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  Icelandic businessman and political campaigner, Jon Gerald Sullenberger promised last December to open a new low cost supermarket in Iceland to rival Bonus. The new store opened yesterday under the name Kostur – but it was not an easy birth. Due to open at 11 yesterday morning in Kopavogur, Kostur was unable to ...
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• 1st Sexual Experiences

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 434
  Youth and Sex People worldwide are having sex for the first time at the younger average age of 17.3 years Just over a third (35%) say they were 16 or under when they lost their virginity Young people continue to have sex at an earlier age than previous generations: while the 25-34s lost their virginity at 17.9 ...
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• Chess: Fight Over Fischer’s Estate Is Taking Shape in Iceland

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, but his long, strange story is not over.
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• Great National Assembly, flawlessly organized

  
  The Iceland Weather Report — Authority: 420
  Back home now from a great day at the National Assembly. Everything ran like clockwork – amazing considering the extent and intricacies of the logistics involved, from sending out those invitations, to organizing the food for 1,500 participants, to assigning every person a place and table, to the methodology, to ...
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• Update!

  
  The Iceland Weather Report — Authority: 420
  Short status update from the media ants:Intense energy, sincerity and positive attitude characterize theNational Assembly at Laugardalsholl today.After lunch the participants concentrated on creating a vision for thefuture of our nation and this work is still going on. About 1,500people are participating in the ...
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• Values: First results from the National Assembly

  
  The Iceland Weather Report — Authority: 420
  This just in from the press centre here:Honesty is the value the representatives of the National Assemblyconsidered most important for society. Equal rights, respect andjustice follow. Next are love, responsibility, freedom, sustainabilityand democracy. The family, equality and trust are also highpriorities.This is ...
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• Indian electric cars to be made in Iceland?

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  India’s Reva Electric Car Company this week announced it wants to establish an assembly plant in Iceland. Reva is working with investment firm Northern Light Energy for the project and hopes to be able to start developing electric vehicles in Iceland. “Iceland is being considered by Reva as a possible site for a ...
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• Iceland holds national meeting

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  A group of 1,200 Icelanders considered statistically representative of the population are being brought together today for the first time in an attempt to “harvest the wisdom of the crowd”. The group of people aged 18 and over were picked randomly from the national registry to be invited to attend the event at ...
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• Watch Luxembourg vs Iceland live online

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 174
  You are most welcome to International Friendlies Match between Luxembourg vs Iceland live stream online on pc. so watch and enjoy unlimited satisfaction.
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• PREVIEW: The Curious Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse

  
  Molten Eagle — Authority: 421
  Scholars do not agree on what each horseman described by the Book of Revelation represents. The four ancient horsemen are often referred to as Pestilence , War , Famine , and Death . Some may now be seeing the ancient horsemens modern apocalyptic counterparts (Radical Mosques, Drought, ...
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• Church of Sweden Ordains First Openly Lesbian Bishop

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiSTOCKHOLM, November 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sweden’s Lutheran church announced it had ordained its first openly homosexual bishop on Sunday, less than a month after it gave its ministers the right to "marry" same-sex couples in church.The Church of Sweden, which was the state church ...
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• Time lapse photography of melting glaciers. Be very afraid.

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 428
  via @runningwolfSA on twitter … Set aside the time and watch something truly frighteningRelated posts:Be afraid.Digression: Arctic sea melting faster than ever10 facts about TwitterSins of the modern age: Be afraidWho’s afraid of a Chicken Hawk?Related posts: Be afraid. Digression: Arctic sea melting faster ...
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