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Pretty funny stuff from Saturday Night Live this weekend, as they brought on fake Bjork to represent Iceland and share her thoughts on the eruption/disruption with fake Larry King.
Larry King: “Now, let me get this straight. First, Iceland’s economy collapses, and you ruin all the banks in Europe. Now, your volcano erupts, and you ruin [...]
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The New York Times is providing fantastic coverage of the still-lingering volcanic ash cloud that has been severely disrupting — and in most places completely halting — air traffic in Europe since the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland on Wednesday.
Here is the Times‘ graphic showing just how widespread the airport closures have been.
Over on their [...]
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Aviation authorities throughout the UK, France, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe were forced to halt all flights today as a giant plume of volcanic ash blow over the continent. The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted Wednesday, causing some flooding and general inconvenience domestically, but the lingering and drifting cloud has caused the most problems.
The [...]
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Iceland has not had much good publicity in the past two years, and it doesn’t look like that will change any time soon.
Back in 2008, Iceland’s government and economy essentially collapsed, leaving the country’s 304,000 residents in despair after what is now called the largest banking collapse in economic history. Now into 2010, the country [...]
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