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Five generations of one family smile down from photographs hanging in the small house of Pauline and Anguteeraq Kreutzmann, who have lived all their lives in Sisimiut, Greenland's second largest town after the capital Nuuk. Their sitting room is filled with stuffed seabirds, homemade bows, fishing spears and tiny hand-carved bone figures shaped like mythical creatures. Laid out on the table are their best cups and saucers - it is time for Kaffemik. Translated from the Danish as "Please come to our house for coffee," this phrase is used to welcome neighbors, friends, relatives and - increasingly - tourists into local...
...best way to get a sense of the place and its people, though, is through the warm, friendly custom of Kaffemik. Before we leave, there is just enough time for another drop of coffee and a few more cakes. As they say at Kaffemiks across Greenland: "Tass' mamaq (Yummy...
...defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, there would be only four—America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. Since that is not the case, it is clear that “continent” now includes national political borders, language isoglosses, and historical circumstances. For example, although Greenland is physically closer to North America, it is a Danish province, and thus a part of the European continent...
...Patriarch because of his keen interest in protecting the environment. He has gathered representatives of the world's major religions for conferences that call attention to the consequences of environmental destruction. The meetings have been in the form of symposiums held aboard ships that have toured the coast of Greenland, the Black Sea and the Amazon and Danube Rivers. He would have had a deserving place in your special issue, showing that religious leaders, alongside politicians, scientists and other prominent people, can play an influential role in protecting the environment. Thrassyvoulos Mitsidis, ATHENS
...would puts millions of human beings at risk from flooding, wetlands would be lost and there would be a massive die-off of sea corals. Sea levels would rise by 28 to 43 cm, and most frightening of all, the report acknowledged the possibility that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which would release enough fresh water to swamp coastal cities, could occur over centuries, rather than millennia. "If you add to this the melting of some of the ice bodies on Earth, this gives a picture of the kinds of issues we are likely to face," said Rajendra...