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There's still one form of correspondence that hasn't been taken over by email: kids' letters to Santa. At Santa Claus Village, 8 km north of Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, ol' St. Nick gets nearly a million letters a year from children worldwide-especially from Japan. And now he even writes back (for details, go to www.santagreeting.net and expect to pay about...
...winter vacation in Lapland would be incomplete without a side trip to one of the world's weirdest hotels, the Snow Castle in Kemi, 120 km south of Rovaniemi. The hotel, restaurant, and theme castle are all constructed annually from solid ice. They open for guests starting New Year's Eve: for details, go to www.snowcastle.net. Yes, the restaurant has reindeer on the menu-but your kids would never forgive you for eating Rudolph...
...James is committed to dividends "in the future." If the Murdochs were to sell tickets to Friday's clash, they could pay dividends now. - By Mark Halper Will The Elves Unionize? L ong before Santa loads up this Christmas, the real work will have been done - but not by Lapland's little helpers. China's 10,000 toy factories - which account for almost three-quarters of the world's production - are, as always, expected to deliver on time. But from now on, workers' welfare will be checked twice. Starting with China, the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) - representing...
...need better cell-phone technology from Finland, or Lapland, or anywhere else. What we need is anti-cell phone technology, to take back the streets (and passenger trains and restaurants and theaters and airplanes) from the cell people before we all go crazy. There must be a gadget in the Sharper Image catalog or somewhere that could negate this nuisance. A cell jammer, say, a pocket-size device that cell haters could carry around and deploy to knock a phone abuser offline. Even better if the device could also transmit into his ear a high-pitched shrieking sound, similar...
...flora in search of plants that will benefit Western medicine. Cox has spent years in Samoa interviewing or apprenticing himself to traditional healers. He has also traveled throughout the South Pacific, as well as in Southeast Asia, South America, East Africa and as far north as Sweden's Lapland. In Samoa alone, healers have led him and his colleagues to 74 medicinal plants that might prove useful...