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Iceland: East Iceland
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Iceland is a modern, technologically advanced country within 5 hours of the east coast of the United States. Iceland is the ideal place for taking a break and setting foot on a European outpost with an exciting, lively, and ancient - but living culture all of its own. You’ll feel at home – free to walk around, shop, admire, explore. It’s a place you could go on discovering forever.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics, Inc. today announced that it will report its third quarter 2007 financial results in a press release to be issued on Monday, November 5, after the close of the market in New York. The company will host a live webcast of its conference call to discuss these results and recent operating highlights on Tuesday, November 6, at 8am Eastern Standard Time/1 pm GMT.
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In December 2006, 30,387 people (9.9% of the total population) who were living in Iceland had been born abroad, including children of Icelandic parents living abroad. 18,563 people (6% of the population) held foreign citizenship. Poles make up the far largest minority nationality (see table on the right for more details). The recent surge in immigration has been credited to a labor shortage because of the booming economy while restrictions on the movement of people from the Eastern European countries that joined the EU/EEA in 2004 have been lifted. Large-scale construction projects in the east of Iceland (see Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project) have ... brought in many people whose stay is expected to be temporary.
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Contrary to what many people think, there are no polar bears in Iceland. Admittedly, every ten years or so a polar bear arrives as an accidental tourist on an ice floe from Greenland, but they aren't invited to stay. The Arctic fox is the only native mammal. Reindeer live in the wild in east Iceland, but were only imported in the 18th century. Mink have ... adapted to the wild, the descendants of animals which escaped from fur farms in the 1930s. A number of pedigree animal stocks are found in Iceland which have disappeared elsewhere, descended from domesticated breeds brought over by the Vikings, including the Icelandic horse, cow, sheep and sheepdog.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics DCGN today announced its consolidated financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. A conference call to discuss the quarter's results and recent operating highlights will be webcast live tomorrow, Tuesday, November 6, at 8:00am Eastern Standard Time/1pm GMT (details below).
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Hitchhiking is a cheap way of getting around in Iceland. The country is among the safest in the world, people are quite friendly and the percentage of cars who do give rides is high, especially in the off-season. However, low traffic in areas outside Reykjavik makes hitchhiking in Iceland an endurance sport. Even on the main ring-road there is quite often less than one car an hour in the eastern parts. Nearly everybody speaks English and most drivers are interested in conversations.
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