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the more luck I seem to have.”
– PoliticiAn thomAS JefferSon
P Stands for Distance
oVEr THE CENTUrIES, the Sámi natives of Lapland have
learnt to live under Arctic conditions. In the old days – before
snowmobiles became common – reindeer were important draught
animals during the winter. As they plodded through the roadless
wilderness on reindeer-driven pulka sleds the Sámi noted the
distance they travelled using a natural recorder and a measure still
generally referred to in Lapland as the poronkusema. It means the
distance in reindeer urine – which can be up to 7.5 kilometres. The
number of kilometres completed is noted by each stop, because a
reindeer is unable to urinate while running, so it always stops to
relieve itself. A reindeer can be driven up to seven poronkusema
lengths in a day– in others words, more than 50 kilometres (about
31 miles).
Food’s also a problem
FooD is a problem for one-third of the globe’s six billion
people. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says more
than a billion are already overweight. The United States has
largest number, who make up one-third of the population. In
Europe, the questionable top ranking is held by Great Britain,
where one in four adults is overweight. At the same time, one
billion of the world’s people go hungry every day, and the
proportion of those undernourished is increasing.
Photos: istockphoto
TO THE POINT
Chicago,
Familiar but unknown
BArAK oBAMA, Michael Jordan, Al Capone, the Chicago Bulls,
the Chicago Blackhawks… Chicago is a city of world-famous
sports associations and celebrities.
It has also become famous through many films and television
series: The Untouchables, The Fugitive, The Negotiator, ER…
This city of 2.9 million inhabitants lies at the southern end of
Lake Michigan. You notice its location particularly in the winter,
when the piercing wind blowing off the Great Lakes drives people
indoors, perhaps into one of the monumental skyscrapers in the
city centre. Of these the most famous is still known as the Sears
Tower, though now it is officially called Willis Tower.
Sears Tower was built in 1993 and at the time was the highest
building in the world, even higher than New York’s Twin Towers.
It kept the title until 1998, when they built one even higher in
Malaysia. From the 103rd floor of the 442 metre- (1,450 feet-) tall
Willis Tower you can observe the seemingly endless labyrinth of
buildings and roads that spans a metropolitan area of 8.3 million
residents and plan an itinerary that takes in everything worth
seeing in the city.
www.chicagotraveler.com
American Airlines from
Helsinki Airport to Chicago
from May 2011 american airlines
will fly daily from helsinki airport
to chicago during the entire summer.
the boeing 767 that flies the
route will take off at 14:00 and arrive
in the usa at 15:20 local time.
the flight leaves chicago at 15:40,
getting to helsinki at 08:30. the
time difference between helsinki
and chicago is eight hours.
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