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Discovering Iceland.

National Catholic Reporter | October 15, 1999 | Copyright

Progressive, literate people in `Paradice'

Perhaps you've taken one of Icelandair's popular low-cost flights to Europe. The flight stopped in Keflavik, Iceland's International Airport. You may have looked out the window and shivered. People outside were walking at a 45-degree angle against driving sheets of sleet. The old lava near the airport looked like the moon. You were glad to be going on to Europe.

If you had stayed over, the weather might have changed in two minutes. The sun, languishing on the horizon, might have produced a double rainbow that would make…

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