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...Wendy and Lucy” and “Old Joy.” Oldham’s music laces granola folk with violins and soulful vocals to create slow, poignant rhythms. One of his albums, “The Letting Go,” was recorded in Reykjav??k, Iceland, and indeed, many of his songs transplant this glacial desolation to the American landscape of front porches and dark country nights...
...There was little chess culture, few schools to nurture and train young talent. So for an American player to reach world-championship level in the 1950s required an obsessive degree of personal dedication. Fischer's triumph over the Soviet chess machine, culminating in his 1972 victory over Spassky in Reykjav??k, Iceland, demanded even more...
...million GWh in total. That's a tiny slice, but energy experts believe China has the potential to do much more. "There are geothermal resources in almost every province in China," says Ingvar Fridleifsson, director of the United Nations University Geothermal Training Program in Reykjav??k. Geothermal pumps will even be used to heat and cool some of the venues at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...
...Chinese government that has committed the country to tapping its geothermal potential. But as is often the case, it's newly entrepreneurial citizens who are making things happen. One Chinese student who studied geothermal technology in Reykjav??k went home to transform what had been a peasant village into a model geothermal development, with housing, pools and a recreation park all heated geothermally. "People can say a lot of things about the Chinese government," says Hans Bragi Bernhardsson, head of China operations for Enex. "But if they decide to do something, they achieve it." In this case, let's hope...
...beloved alcoholic father. But years of performing and public speaking molded it into a persona that helped win landslides and kept his enemies off balance. Reagan could go to Berlin and tell Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" just months after negotiating earnestly with the Soviet leader at Reykjav??k, all the while withholding concessions on the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the very thing Gorbachev most wanted...