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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...
...Finnair flies several times daily to Rovaniemi from Helsinki. Tickets are $170 for children and $210 for grown-ups. The children may want window seats, in the hope of spotting a certain team of reindeer on a practice flight for the big night...
...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...
...HOPE THE LATEST NATO CAMPAIGN in Bosnia is a genuine effort toward peace by the West [THE BALKANS, Sept. 25]. If it is only part of President Clinton's agenda for domestic policy, then he is walking on a razor's edge. TOMMI SLUNGA Rovaniemi, Finland Via E-mail...
...Russian joint venture with Hyundai, yet nowhere is the nature of that tragic deal covered in the article. We need the full story to learn from the mistakes made by Hyundai and others if capitalism is to become part of the solution to Russia's problems. BRUCE C. FORBES Rovaniemi, Finland Via E-mail...