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...Family Court is wondering whether it has protected kids a little too much. "We are hearing that children - some children, at least - do want a greater involvement in the process," says Chief Justice Diana Bryant. "We're starting to understand that although we do take into account children's wishes, children themselves don't always understand that...
...accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping the earth and devise an exit strategy for our self-indulgent species, leaving the planet to the invertebrates to carry on without us. Tim Symonds Burwash, England Calling the Kettle Black? re The viewpoint by terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna on the Maoist insurgents in Nepal...
...terrible," he recalled after his trial, which lasted five hours. "The Bible says, 'Tell the truth, ask for forgiveness, and then start looking ahead and asking for eternal life.'" Ntirushwamaboko will be sentenced this week. He faces seven to 12 years, but the time served will be taken into account. As a reward for confessing, half his sentence can be spent working three days a week in community service, planting trees or building roads, schools and hospitals nearby. The gacaca courts focus on local grievances, so property crime cases are also routinely heard. During Ntirushwamaboko's trial last week...
...country holds the rotating E.U. presidency. The pact caps euro-zone countries' deficits at 3% of GDP; Germany and France want to change the rules on what spending gets counted in deficit calculations. Germany, for example, wants the billions it has spent on reunification to be taken into account. Other...
Doctors have long known that they can't always treat heart disease exactly the same way in women as in men. Now they are learning that they have to take gender differences into account when it comes to prevention as well. A rigorously conducted clinical trial released last week shows that a low dose of aspirin taken regularly, which seems to help middle-aged men avoid heart attacks, does not offer the same cardiovascular benefits for middle-aged women--although it does lessen their risk of stroke...