been employed at the terminal for the last 25 years. He said: ?There was a great buzz about the place back in 1978. When I arrived first there was a lot of construction work going on; such as earth moving [...] work, laying the foundations for a lot of the constructions that came on site in later years. ?There were probably about 5,000 to 6,000 bears ? construction workers ? who were working on the site and they [...] in Britain can only dream of. With the massive Clair oil field, 50 miles to the west of Shetland, coming on stream towards the end of next year, the BP led management at the oil terminal is confident that

with the Faroese. At least we are clear about which of the wells to date have essentially failed ? all but the Marjan probe drilled by Amerada Hess. The failure of the only well drilled during the 2003 [...] JEREMY CRESSWELL Short of heading for West Africa, the greatest successes are currently being scored in the NW African state of Mauritania while, on the west side, the Canadian quest plods along unspe [...] said little about the Mauritania programme. It?s English language website press listing has a statement about the initial Chinguetti discovery in 2001, but there has been nothing obvious since. Of course,

miles of fields: I had landed in Hicks­ville, I just wasn’t aware of it. On the way to school, we stopped at a Wal-Mart, a gigantic get-everything-you-can-dream-of kind of store to pick up a comforter, [...] caught a virus, in 30 degrees Celsius, wearing three shirts to many, I did not have the sweet feeling of adventure I had expected. However, I was happy to be done traveling for now. In the car on the way [...] way to the school, I looked out the windows. Nothing was as I had envisioned, no high buildings, no blazing and beautiful metropolitan, just a highway, a couple of fast-food restaurants, and miles upon miles

allastaðni. "The light came through the window, straight from the sun above, and so inside my little room. There plunged the rays of love. In streams of light I clearly saw. The dust you seldom see. Out of which [...] My room, it looked the same - But there was nothing left between, the nameless and the name. I'll try to say a little more: Love went on and on. Until it reached an open door - Then Love itself, love Itself [...] me to the corner now, our steps will always rhyme. You know my love goes with you, as your love stays with me. It's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea. But let's not talk of love or

prosecutor in a case of a quarrel between two neighbours. - She gave the impression of a very professional and tough attorney, says Naina Jacobsen. Little did they know, however, that they were in the presence [...] in the US taught me to respect people of different cultures and backgrounds. And even though I was only there for a year, the country is still dear to my heart. When Jens Olsen thinks of the US, he thinks [...] thinks of his American family. And that is indeed one of the main goals of the student-exchange organisation AFS. - The organisation was established by some ambulance drivers from World War II, who said that

were to be expected when you combine the traditional working methods of the oil industry with the stipulations of the hydrocarbon law and the expectations of the local business community. Let me first [...] studies over the coming months. If we see hydrocarbon production on the Faroe Shelf in the future, the local industry will also face a new challenge with a marked increase in activity. According to the Faroese [...] countries is the need for evaluating the activities as we progress. There have been two meetings recently where lessons learned were on the agenda. In addition the Ministry of Petroleum will meet with the oil companies

incompetence as a literary critic. I´ve read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff” Keldur: [...] enn hesir báðir høvundar av “Narnia” og “Lord of the Rings”. Um evangeliini sigur C. S. Lewis: “And I am prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that [...] Gud Faðir, hin alvalda, skapara himins og jarðar. HAS: ? ÁJ: Eg trúgvi á Jesus Krist, Guds einborna son váran harra. HAS: Jesus var ikki Gud ella Guds sonur í tí týdningi, at hann var føddur av moyggj

There is something quite indomitable about the Faroes. Born of fire from the very center of the earth, sculpted by ice and wind and wave, at once a refuge and a stepping-stone for intrepid explorers, often [...] crafted a plan, and now all that remains is but to execute it. I refer, of course, to the country’s Vision 2015, the hope and dream that the Faroes will become one of the most progressive nations of the world [...] The Faroes sits in the heart of the North Atlantic astride the remnants of the Gulf Stream. As a consequence, it is extremely well positioned for all types of maritime research. Efforts are now underway

the World The waters around the Faroe Islands are said to be the cleanest in the world. The perfect mix of the warm Gulf Stream from the south and the Arctic waters from the north produce a paradise for [...] suddenly drop hundreds of meters straight down into the deep blue sea. The ocean climate and the small size of the Faroes may make them one of the wettest countries on earth, so the landscape is traversed [...] focus of attention and therefore – in a way – become a new centre. A New Frontier There are still new frontiers to be discovered in the world – and the Faroe Islands might be just that: a new frontier – an

Faroese people are in fact amongst the best educated in the world, and of the Nordic countries only the Finnish population actually has a higher degree of education than the Faroese. Infrastructure is good [...] con­necting six of the islands whith over 80 % of the population. More­over, the IT penetration is near 100 %. We are now about to undertake significant investments in the Vagar airport both with the aim to modernise [...] In the Faroes we already get almost half of the power for our electricity consumption from rene­wable sources, from water and wind turbines. On the other hand we use great amounts of oil on land on heating