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...Game, James Graff, our London-based senior editor, journeyed to the village of Resolute in Canada's remote Nunavut territory, where the Canadian government plans to build a military training center to safeguard the coming economic bounty. And our Berlin bureau chief, Andrew Purvis, set off for the isolated Norwegian outpost of Hammerfest, a template for future Arctic boomtowns...
...August, a wisp of flame suddenly appeared in the Arctic twilight over the Barents Sea, bathing the low clouds over the Norwegian port of Hammerfest in a spectral orange glow. With a tremendous roar, the flame bloomed over the windswept ocean and craggy gray rocks, competing for an instant with the Arctic summer's never-setting sun. The first flare-off of natural gas from the Snohvit (Snow White in Norwegian) gas field, some 90 miles (145 km) offshore, was a beacon of promise: After 25 years of false starts, planning and construction, the first Arctic industrial...
...rogue missiles flying toward the United States, the SBX had been scheduled to report for duty in Alaska in early 2006, but a series of structural repairs and upgrades have kept it in warmer waters. For over a year, the nine-story radar that sits atop a self-propelled Norwegian oil platform has been coming and going from Pearl Harbor for fixes and tests - a delay critics see as symptomatic of an agency under pressure to deliver a national missile defense system that is still more fiction than fact...
...Norwegian Wood, 1987 A runaway hit that sold in the millions globally, this book was especially popular in Asia. Two million copies were sold in Japan and 1 million in China; the book also spent 16 years on the best-seller list of Korea's top bookstores. Few writers have had such a huge pan-Asian following...
...that élite academia is counting on Kavli's institutional largesse, he's ready to rev up individual researchers with high-profile prizes. Kavli inked an agreement with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to start in fall 2008 giving three awards, worth $1 million apiece, every two years...