globalisation, the very foundation is the development of the Faroese welfare society. This is why we for the first time with Vision 2015 have made strategic comprehensive plans for welfare of all the most important [...] with children should be adjusted to their specific needs and abilities. Welfare of the functional disabled is the best unit of measurement for our means to create the ‘good’ society, that prompts inclusion [...] are able to work and participate according to ability, • which gives all citizens the opportunity to use their capacity to lead a satisfactory life. Compared to all parameters of competition, the Nordic

selves the right way. Now it is our turn. The Clinton visist is an opportunity to draw attention to our country and create opportunities to tell the good stories, Elin Heinesen explains. And the fact that [...] and it is not just a question of luck or coincident that the Faroe Islands suddenly get huge world-media coverage. It turns out that the origin of the recent flood of stories is to be found in the cancelled [...] our stories about the Faroe Islands as a Tolkien-like country and about the boy who found a watch that had travelled all the way from the North Pole. But in order to sell the Faroes to his editors, he needed

only the increasingly devalued U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment [...] eagerness to talk politics. “It is clear to us, based on Iraq, that President Bush is mentally handicapped,” they told us earnestly as we visited and watched the sun set over the city. It is not a bad [...] awaits us in the Faroes, but I highly anticipate the natural beauty, a new family and comm­unity, and the wool. If you see me on the street over the next year shout out a greeting: We can count to 20 together

g, the size of the country is what makes it so full of opportunities for a person to shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country [...] simply seemed too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: [...] country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned into by their heritage as ’the great melting pot’ (or salad bowl, as I think is more fitting). However

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 [...] urgent need to diversify the economy. We have seen the economy grow and diversify for more than a decade now, since the recovery from the recession of the early 90ies. What must be striking about the Faroese [...] 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 with sub­seatunnels

utilizing the power from the sea. The idea is to use the power waves give when they reach the shore, a process the company Sewave is working hard on being the world leader in. If it turns out a success, the [...] the Faroes are proven to be the safe haven on earth, according to statistics, it has the lowest crimerate in the world. If we look at violence, the picture is the same. Natural balance Faroes is one of [...] and effectivity. The aim is to develop the Faroes to a knowledge society and in this environment where the country is, at may well be a process that makes the Faroes bring solutions to the world in these

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 by 2015. A bit [...] investigate the practicality of using the constant rhythm of the waves to generate power. To capitalize on this growing interest in the Faroes and to foster accelerated collaboration with the international [...] practical. The United States as well is well known for its practical nature and everyone knows that teamwork and practical colla­boration is the spirit of the age these days, but the Faroese and the Americans

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 to the school, I looked out the windows. Nothing [...] Arkansas, and I wouldn’t want to go to school anywhere else. The school is excellent and the knowledge I have gained there is monumental. But my schooling has not only happened in the classroom. Before I left [...] think it was to far away to go. I had told her with great confidence that it was only a plane ticket away. That is not true. America is much further away than that. To come here was like going to another planet

environmental issues, which is the world’s greatest threat today – possibly even more so than acts of terror. A Clinton is definitely better than a Bush, if the USA is to join in the small club of countries [...] finally are beginning to regard environmental issues seriously. The main issue in the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign is »American Health Choices Plan«, which is intended to diminish the massive gap between [...] precondition for a country – large or small – to cope being a nation in the world today is that the full potential of the human resources within the people is utilised. That a Government of men only and

Teitur has taken the title of Best Male Singer at the Danish Music Awards, and Eivør won Best Vocalist and Best Album at the Danish Folk Music Awards. This is just to name a few. The public institution [...] contemporary musicians. Whatever the reason, the inclination to make music here grows day by day. The music scene in the Faroes is very diverse, offering everything from metal bands to singer-songwriters, jazz [...] market is in the pipeline. FIE is looking into opportunities to promote the Faroes, as well as Faroese music and fashion design in the US. Some Faroese designers and musicians are already active on the US