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...idea. And parents traveling with children should know that laws against corporal punishment may take that decision out of their hands. Much of the world - including Asia, the Middle East, the U.S., the U.K., Canada and New Zealand - leaves the spanking issue up to parents. But 11 nations - Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Iceland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden - already have laws prohibiting corporal punishment of children. Sanctions range from fines to possible imprisonment. And if child-welfare activists and the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child have their way, the day will soon come when spanking...
...Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War I on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew...
Hometown: Vienna, Austria...
This arrangement, totalling $8 billion, was concluded with the governments of Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria, as well as other private corporations...
...Libya has been isolated and sanctioned for nearly 15 years, and it has already paid enough for this atrocity. Why should innocent Libyans suffer any longer from enormous unemployment, a bad medical situation and a disastrous economy, all of which are results of the sanctions? Michael D?ninger Salzburg, Austria...