<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[$4.5 Billion in Aid Pledged For Postwar Efforts in Sudan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45986-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45986-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nations and international organizations on Tuesday pledged $4.5 billion over three years to help southern Sudan build government institutions and alleviate poverty as it recovers from a two-decade civil war.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving Lives, Bridging Cultures]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17002-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17002-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Regardless of size, natural disasters have the power to draw people together across the language and culture divide.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Rosenberg; Etiquette Coach For Navy, Folk Dance Enthusiast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61673-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61673-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ David Rosenberg, 89, who gave Navy personnel etiquette instructions for overseas travel and was deeply involved in the Washington folk dance scene, died Feb. 22 at the Hermitage retirement home in Alexandria after a heart attack.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia Says Scientist Divulged State Secrets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42366-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42366-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Russian scientist has been charged with divulging state secrets to a South Korean manufacturer of car wheels, an action human rights groups say they fear is part of a campaign by the security services to intimidate researchers from former Soviet facilities who now work with foreigners.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Doctor Whose Mission Is Peace and Prizes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33679-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33679-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When    Ole Danbolt Mjoes , a professor of medicine who specializes in the heart, is not in a lecture auditorium or his lab, he devotes his time to the topic of peace, his "other interest," as he calls it.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Geographic Writer Andrew H. Brown, 92, Dies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12622-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12622-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Andrew H. Brown, 92, a retired National Geographic writer, editor and photographer who traveled the far corners of the world from the 1930s until the 1990s reveling in his craft, died of colon cancer Feb. 4 at Montgomery Hospice in Rockville. He lived in Bethesda.]]></description><author> Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entertaining for Their Countries]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53638-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53638-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ellen Vollebaek's first diplomatic reception lingers in her memory. Soon after her husband, Knut, joined the Norwegian Foreign Service in 1973, the couple was invited to the Egyptian Embassy in Oslo. Not knowing anyone, the Vollebaeks stood in a corner. A lavish party swirled by.]]></description><author> Walter Nicholls</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[$1 Billion Donated to Vaccinate Poor Children]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33696-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33696-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa and Asia.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Report Urges Rich To Give More]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16530-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16530-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United States and other rich nations need to increase their overseas development assistance this year by as much as $48 billion in order to achieve their commitment to slash in half global poverty for a billion people in the next 10 years, according to a United Nations report.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aid to Poorest Nations Trails Global Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10692-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10692-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though the United States is a top donor in international aid after disasters, it is the one of the smallest contributors for development.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Quest for Victims on Inundated Coast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61699-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61699-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two weeks after the event, the number and location of the tsunami's survivors in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, remain a mystery. The IRC, like other relief groups, is moving ahead on the assumption that its efforts will find, or attract, people who need help.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folger Consort's Medieval Magic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61897-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61897-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Music theory in the 12th and 13th centuries was a wonderful mishmash of aesthetics, mysticism, numerology and science. Octaves, fourths and fifths were held to be the preferred intervals because Pythagoras had determined that their frequencies could be represented by the "perfect" ratios of 1:2, 2:3 and 3:4. The "perfect" time signature was considered to be 9/8 because it was made up of three groups of three (the number 3, of course, representing the Trinity). Out of all this emerged an astonishing body of gorgeous music written by people, mostly anonymous, whose lives were in the church and whose creativity still speaks eloquently.]]></description><author> Joan Reinthaler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['We Didn't Understand, We Were Just Paralyzed']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28888-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28888-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[They were supposed to be relaxing on the beach or playing a round of golf. Instead, Leif Giske and his wife stood on the concrete driveway of a hospital at an overflow morgue.]]></description><author> Peter S. Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Insistent Appeal for Aid To Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  J   an Egeland , the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs and the U.N. emergency relief coordinator, had a dual purpose for his visit to Washington this week. He told U.S. officials that American relief and food assistance has saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the Darfur region of Sudan and in Congo. But he also said there was a global trend of declining support for humanitarian efforts around the world.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stepfamily Ties]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53757-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53757-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[      GARRETT IN WEDLOCK <br>    A Novel-in-Stories <br>By Paul Mandelbaum]]></description><author> Carolyn See,</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing Traditions in the Holiday Spirit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23340-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23340-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  European countries take center stage this week in showcasing their hallowed traditions of yuletide.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Spirit Behind the Aga Khan Awards]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15341-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15341-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the West, the Aga Khan has an outsize profile as a multibillionaire, owner of fast horses and fixture on British society pages, where the odds are being weighed that divorce from his second wife, the Begum Inaara, a former German pop singer with a law degree, could trim his highness's fortune by $1 billion.]]></description><author> Linda Hales</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A809-2004Nov20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A809-2004Nov20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Acute malnutrition among young children has nearly doubled since the U.S. led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, officials say.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dream Unfulfilled]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41509-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41509-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For virtually his entire adult life, Yasser Arafat had one dream: self-determination and statehood for the Palestinian people. In the end, he did not live to see vision  come to pass.]]></description><author> Lee Hockstader</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Axis of Evil' Lullabies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62937-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62937-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/norway/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 7:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The most thought-provoking  musical statement made this election year just might be a CD of heartbreakingly beautiful songs for babies.]]></description><author> Joe Heim</author></item></channel></rss>