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IN A BOXY building near the docks of Helsinki, Finnish engineers are testing icebreaker designs. At the rim of a giant ice tank your correspondent shivers. A siren blares. A model ship, three metres long, surges forwards, splitting a sheet of ice with its orange bow.
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