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1999: Focus for the future
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2003: Familiar throughout the world
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1947: Årdal: light at the end of a long tunnel
1950: The metal is magnesium, the car is the Beetle
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1969: Fertilizer in the desert
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1908: Of course the workers must have houses
1910: What became of Professor Birkeland?
1914: War and difficult decisions
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