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Norway has established satellite stations to monitor global climate change from the poles. The stations in the Arctic and Antarctic will provide information on changes in the global climate more quickly than previous systems.
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Although the Evangelical Lutheran Church is the state church, Norway has complete religious freedom. Education is free through the university level and is compulsory from ages 6 to 16. At least 12 months of military service and training are required of every eligible male. Norway's health system includes free hospital care, physicians' compensation, cash benefits during illness and pregnancy, and other medical and dental plans. There is a public pension system.
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In 1814, Norway acquired its first constitution. This document was relatively liberal, but in §2 it stated that the official state religion was Lutheran Protestantism and that Jews and Jesuits were forbidden from entering the kingdom. The lobbying to change this paragraph was led by the national poet, Henrik Wergeland. In 1851 the ban was indeed reversed, six years after the Wergeland's death.
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Norway maintains an embassy in the United States at 2720 34th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel. 202-333-6000) and consulates in Houston, Minneapolis (may be closed in 2008), New York, and San Francisco.
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Norway is divided into nineteen first-level administrative regions known as fylker ("counties", singular fylke) and 430[18] second-level kommuner ("municipalities", singular kommune). The fylke is the intermediate administration between state and municipality. The King is represented in every county by a Fylkesmann.
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Envisioning Change -- "Melting Ice -- A Hot Topic" will launch at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, during United Nations World Environment Day on June 5, 2007, and remain on display through the end of August. The exhibit will travel to the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, in October 2007 and to Chicago in spring 2008.
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