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Aside from the club scene and first-rate restaurants like Laekjarbrekka, with its renowned game menu featuring wild reindeer, puffin and gannet, Reykjavik (pop. 170,000) does not exactly offer world-class attractions. Its main shopping street has more Chinese restaurants than chic boutiques, and everything is expensive (a beer in a club costs about $7). "We are not a country that offers high-class tourism," admits Oddny Oladottir of the Iceland Tourist Board. "But for people interested in nature and geology, you can see a lot of things in a small area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unfrozen North | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...with their economic-growth projections, but because they take congressional spending projections at their word. The advantage of taking money for a tax cut off the budgetary table in March is, well, that it's off the table. Let the taxpayers eat first, and let the ethanol subsidizers and reindeer researchers fight over the leftovers, instead of the other way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surplus Dividend: An Idea Whose Time Hasn't Come | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

...North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what with all the pro bono work. Counter-argument: Santa could be the Rupert Murdoch cross Willie Wonka of toy sellers: a big-hearted tyrant tycoon with his own slave-race. 3) The Flying Reindeer Problem: Reindeer don't usually fly. Counter-Argument: The sleigh itself could run on some sort of solid fuel rocket that pushes the passive reindeer (rocket power being the only other possible means of movement other than whatever made...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Christmas Lie | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...friends, giving and sharing, and a steady supply of good old holiday cheer. The season has its immutable rituals-looking for that perfect tree, basting that hormone-injected dinner bird, setting up lighted lawn decorations (in Springfield Fla. this week, one man put up a display of two reindeer getting it on, much to his neighbors' horror-but that's an exception), and frantic last-minute dashes to the mall for almost-forgotten gifts. Ah yes, Holiday Happiness is everywhere-everywhere, that is, except Hollywood, where the promise of even temporary stability makes everyone act even weirder than usual...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...Erect Nipple Man, Coma Man and Old Man Man as they battle the forces of the evil Butt Pirate! See how Coko the Junkie Pimp relearns the art of slapping hos after a bout of amnesia! Or find out the true Christmas story in Pussy da Red Nosed Reindeer! Don't wait; start begging your parents...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Time for S&M With Spike and Mike | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

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