Talk about paid vacations! The mayor of Kaafjord, a village in northern Norway, is proposing a solution to the local population problem. Summoning his best political instincts, Aage Pederson says he wants to subsidize pleasure trips for his 200 or so bachelor constituents ... to places as far away as Asia. The whole idea is that they'd use the opportunity to find and bring back wives, who would then bear children. Kaafjord, you see, has only about 2,500 inhabitants left. About 40 each year - most of them young women - go off to study or work in cities south of the Arctic Circle. As is common with politicians' spending initiatives, however, there's no word on where the money to pay the subsidies would come from.
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