beautiful metropolitan, just a highway, a couple of fast-food restaurants, and miles upon 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 [...] Wal-Mart, a gigantic get-everything-you-can-dream-of kind of store to pick up a comforter, pillow and other necessities to get by our first night. When I went to pay, the cashier started to talk to me, asking [...] started to gradually get easier. I began to fathom the culture of Arkansas, to empathize with their values, and more important, to under­stand my own Faroese culture; who I was. Today, I love Arkansas, and I

our own good and take decisions concerning the direction of our land than we are, who actually inhabit the islands. Along the same line of rea­soning we are now in a process of building up our own foreign [...] with quite accurate descriptions of the different layers of rock and sediments thousands of metres below the surface. On this background it is possi­ble to make predictions of what you may find deep down, [...] the Faroese society and political system as such, to give a brief overview of what kind of entity our country is, and what kind of challenges and possibilities lie ahead. You may be aware that the Faroes

create an image of power, endurance and dialogue. We sincerely hope this positive image you have built up will be continued in American politics and we would welcome your wife as a successor of this image. [...] challenge of a globalized world. We highly respect your efforts for dialogue and peace and the professional way you have been coping with it. By visiting the Faroe Islands you create a bridge of peace rang­ing [...] valuable in common – namely the Irish origin. A visit to the Faroe Islands is a visit to the islands of peace. From the very beginning the Faroe Islands were inhabited by Irish monks finding the islands

Editor-in-Chief of Sosialurin the leading newspaper of the Faroe Islands which I am proud to say campaigned vigorously for your release during the dark days of the Apartheid era. We are naturally sorry that you [...] the recently formed Council of Elders. The founding of this body is indeed a momentous development. It can only be an immense new force for good to have the accumulated wisdom of the Council being brought [...] Present, by the Danish Embassy in Pretoria on the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s 85th Birthday in 2003. Sosialurin is taking the opportunity of Bill Clinton’s visit to the Faroe Islands to ask him to be

well understand that the first shock after an atrocity of such dimension may make any president overreact BUT to the President of the mightiest nation of the world it is unseemly to lose composure and promise [...] Now it is you Americans who have become the victims of a terrible crime and you must suffer horrors that we are so used to Now you can feel on your own skin how it is to be in our stead (shoes) ALWAYS to [...] Dear George W. Bush. If you as a true President, could announce to the ILL-DOERS: Listen to me all of you I have a PROPOSITION for you Then we would truly honour you as a Great President Then they will

and the resurgence of barbarity. Contrary to former predictions of many Enlightenment figures, the world seems to be on the threshold of a new era of modern crusades, with members of two monotheistic creeds [...] instead of ruining it, had chosen to support and defend this beacon of democracy in a Shia Muslim country in the Middle East? So, in addition to honesty, humility and the revival of the principles of true [...] disguise of violent tempests and torrents of rain. However, this morning I arose to calm and dry weather and to the miracle of faint sun rays attempting as best they could to deepen the rosy shade of the autumn

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and one of the principal drafters of the Declaration of Independence, once reflected in a letter written in 1803 to James Monroe that some men [...] y entered into a variety of cutting-edge business ventures, some of which extend all the way to China, in collaboration with US businesses. Some involve our mainstay export of fish products; still others [...] technology, an area of expertise that is blossoming here in the Faroes. Faroese software engineers, for example, have developed an ingenious means of ensuring effective and swift tracking of our fish production

became one of the leading states in America. America, accepted under your leadership both the immensely important role as the protector of democracy and the peace creating and retaining factor of the world [...] world. In the aftermath of all this, you have spent much energy in the prevention of the many dangers and evils threatening the well-being and welfare of this world. Mr President, You are visiting the world’s [...] material wealth and all of our culture is reflected and conditioned by the intimate association with the sea. The sea around the Faroes – a sea, which encompasses the whole of the Northern hemisphere,

the island, experience a living museum of farm life today, and sample local traditional cuisine. The farmer is part of a green certification program. If the numbers of cruise ships continue to grow rapidly [...] cultural integrity • Condition of historic buildings and archaeological sites • Aesthetic appeal; quality of tourism management • Outlook for the future Experts first posted points of view on each destinatio [...] variation of a research tool called the Delphi technique—panelists filed their final stewardship scores. For a list of panelists, click here. The resulting Stewardship Index rating is an average of informed

her í Føroyum. Ein onnur bók, sum eisini gjørdi mær mun á ferðini móti tí at skriva var A room of one´s own hjá Virginiu Woolf, ein ótrúliga væl skrivað lítil bók um alt kompleksið av orsøk og virkningi [...] varliga uttan um líktorn og sker, so kemur at vísa seg í heilum okkurt nervandi burturúr. A Room of One´s Own gav okkum myndina av systur Shakespeare, av henni sum hevði somu listarligu gávur sum beiggin [...] Tannlæknaháskúlan at specialisera meg. Áhugaverdar bøkur komu tó framvegis, og í 1982 eisini Women of Ideas hjá Dale Spender, ein søgulig bók um 140 kvinnuligar, mest enskttalandi rithøvundar, um teirra