Feb 09
with over 200 programs in 65 different countries, there are a plethora of opportunities for students at the UConn who want to travel abroad during their university career. The study abroad fair in the Rome Ballroom last Wednesday afternoon gave students the opportunity to see what programs are available for upcoming semesters and the summer. …
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Feb 03
Written by Patrick Abboud It’s been a drama-filled couple of years for The Drums … Adam Kessler’s departure from the seminal ‘surf band’ of 3 in 2010 was followed soon after by an almost complete dis-banding/ break-up. Since then, it’s been a long haul to get The Drums‘ second release out to the masses but …
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Jan 28
The authors Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir and Páll Björnsson were presented with the Icelandic Literature Awards at a celebratory ceremony at the presidential residence Bessastaðir on Wednesday. “There was such a flood of good books and therefore it is particularly pleasing for me to have won the award. I was very satisfied with this book and …
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Jan 25
British adventurer Felicity Aston skis across Iceland during a pre-expedition training trip in this picture taken September 24, 2010 provided by the Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition. (REUTERS/Kaspersky ONE Trans-antarctic Expedition/Kaspersky Labs) Change text size for the story Print this story After a gruelling 59-day ski in the coldest place on Earth, British adventurer Felicity Aston …
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Jan 21
Around 21,000 foreign tourists left Iceland through Keflavík International Airport in December; which is about 11 percent more than in December 2010. Overall last year 541,000 foreign tourists left Iceland through its biggest airport; and that is a record figure and a full 18 percent higher than 2010. the record year before 2011 was 2008, …
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Jan 14
Tweet Sharebar Tweet FRAUD PREVENTION From Barings to Madoff: Lessons LearnedRegulations are no match for human failings. As lawyers, financial investigators and chastened investors continue to pick through the rubble of the Madoff scandal and other massive frauds, new, more inventive versions of the same old story are being written. Ian McCluskey, Miami On December …
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Jan 08
Press Release – Hotels.com As the countdown to 2012 begins, join Hotels.com in discovering how new Year’s Eve is celebrated in different cities around the world. whether it’s cleansing the home for the year ahead, sipping champagne or watching fireworks, there’s something …The countdown to 2012 begins – new Year’s celebrations around the worldAuckland, 21 …
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Dec 25
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 1:14 pm Press Release: Hotels.com The countdown to 2012 begins – new Year’scelebrations around theworld Auckland, 21 December, 2011 –As the countdown to 2012 begins, join Hotels.comin discovering how new Year’s Eve is celebrated indifferent cities around the world. Whether it’s cleansingthe home for the year ahead, sipping champagne or watchingfireworks, …
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Dec 18
It’s a big world. I can’t even hazard a guess as to how many bands there are in it, but it must be one of those “if you laid them end-to-end they’d circle the globe 500 times” types of things. if that’s a reasonable assumption, there’s an astronomical amount of music happening across the planet …
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Dec 07
December 07, 2011, 12:00 PM EST by Omar R. Valdimarsson (Updates with krona in ninth paragraph.) Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged as market turmoil triggered by Europe’s worsening debt crisis prompted policy makers to shelve a tightening cycle. The seven-day collateral lending rate was left at 4.75 percent, Sedlabanki …
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