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Norway wants to ban adults from buying cigarettes
Norway's biggest medical organisation wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to adults. In a drive towards a smoke-free society by 2035, the Norwegian Medical Association (NMA) is pressing the government to back its proposal for a ban on tobacco sales to citizens born after the year 2000. Marit Hermansen, the president of the NMA, told Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten that access to cigarettes was not a basic human right.
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Fossilized Tropical Forest Found — in Arctic Norway
An ancient fossil forest in Norway with tropical origins is one of the earliest forests to appear on Earth. By Mindy Weisberger. (Nov. 20)
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Slow corruption
When a woman last year confessed that she would not know what to do if her fetus were diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, Richard Dawkins promptly replied: "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice..." By Vidar Halgunset. (Dec. 7)
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Scientists find 1500-year-old Viking settlement beneath new airport site
When Norway announced plans to expand its Ørland Airport this year, archaeologists got excited. They knew that pre-construction excavation was likely to reveal ancient Viking artifacts. But they got far more than they had hoped.
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14th December 1911 - Amundsen reaches South Pole
Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen, born in Borge, near Oslo, in 1872, was one of the great figures in polar exploration. In 1897, he was first mate on a Belgian expedition that was the first ever to winter in the Antarctic.
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Norway offers refugees free flights, thousands of dollars to leave the country
Norway is offering asylum seekers thousands of dollars to leave the country as the global refugee crisis intensifies, and hundreds of people have taken the government up on its offer, The Local reports. A family with two children is eligible for up to $9,300 dollars – and free flights home, the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration told the media outlet. More than 900 people reportedly have accepted. “[Refugees] thought that when they came to Norway they would...
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Researchers unearth tropical forest remains in Arctic Norway - Redorbit
A new discovery made in the Svalbard archipelago has revealed that prehistoric Norway was a year-round sauna—and may have been partly responsible for one of the most radical shifts in the Earth’s climate within the past 400 million years.
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Norway Bans Cars in Oslo’s Downtown District
In a first-of-its-kind attempt to reduce air pollution, Norwegian officials have announced a ban on nearly all car traffic in the central district of Oslo. Reuters reports that the ban will be in place by 2019. The city will invest in beefed-up public transportation and build nearly 40 miles of bike lanes to help residents get around. Excluded from the ban are trucks delivering goods to business and certain automobiles that transport residents with physical disabilities.
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Who Saved the Electric Car? Norway, That's Who
In the face of international indifference, the Scandinavian country has been one of the brightest lights in pushing for the use of electric vehicles. And an industry group in the region has been a big reason for its success. The world’s most electrified auto market didn’t rev its engines overnight, but things are well into gear today.
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‘Texas’ is slang for ‘crazy’ in Norway
Y’all already all know that Texas is known for its slang. The state is home to a slew of Southern colloquialisms as well as totally unique sayings you won’t hear anywhere else. But did you know that the word “Texas” is in itself a slang word? According to Texas Monthly, Norwegians have long used the word “Texas” in lieu of the word “crazy.” Think that last statement is hogwash?
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Norway to Start Withdrawals From Oil Fund to Plug Deficits
Norway predicts it will for the first time need to withdraw cash from its $820 billion sovereign wealth fund as western Europe’s biggest oil exporter uses a record chunk of its petroleum revenue to cover budget holes and stimulate the economy.
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Tiny town in Norway built to boost body builder's confidence
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These charts show how $50 crude cripples oil-addicted Norway
A 60 percent drop in oil prices has hit Norway right in the jugular. Growth has come to a virtual halt in a nation that has counted on petroleum for almost a quarter of its output. Its reliance on crude has increased since 2000, with the number of oil-related jobs doubling and now accounting for one in nine.
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Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band - Nikita
From the album 'A Special Album' (2003)
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How The Desperate Norwegian Salmon Industry Created A Sushi Staple
Like shrimp and tuna, salmon is very popular with Americans. Diners love it even as sushi. But in sushi's birthplace, Japan, raw salmon wasn't always on the menu. Jess Jiang of our Planet Money podcast has the story of salmon sushi's rocky start. Shimao Ishikawa has been a sushi chef for over 40 years. He works at a sushi restaurant in Manhattan called Jewel Bako. Ishikawa's served and eaten all the hard-core things, like sea urchin, poisonous blowfish.
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A Bird's-Eye View of the Beautiful Shores of Norway's Lofoten Islands
This area is where more than a quarter of the country's seabird population nests during summers.
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Norway Hotel Tycoon Offers 5,000 Hotel Nights to Refugees
A Norwegian billionaire who made his fortune in the hotel business offered on Tuesday 5,000 nights in his hotel chain to refugees who do not have a spot in asylum centres. "We are offering 5,000 nights to refugees who need it," Petter Stordalen, who owns the Nordic Choice Hotels chain, wrote on Twitter. The migrant drama unfolding in Europe "concerns absolutely everyone," he told Norwegian news agency NTB...
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Norway's Underground Seed Vault Could Save Humanity From Extinction
It's the Noah's arc of food.
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‘We are taking the island back’: Norway’s long road back to Utøya
Four years after Anders Behring Breivik murdered 69 people on the island of Utøya, the political youth group he attacked has returned for its annual summer camp for the first time.
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7th August 1947 - Wood raft completes 4,300-mile voyage
Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti.Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents.
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