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...never get along. There are too few common elements linking them. Turkey can't be seriously considered European in terms of history, geography, culture, religion or politics. European countries share common historic, religious, political and legal values, such as the rule of law, freedom of speech and the outright ban on armed forces participating in any political activity. Unfortunately, these are of very little importance to Turkey. This country, whose strategic value has been vastly overestimated, continues to bully, demanding that the E.U. adapts to its unacceptably low standards, instead of making some serious efforts both in domestic and foreign...
Shanno's death, furthermore, highlights the gap between legislation and implementation in India's efforts to protect children. India's Right to Education bill, which guarantees universal education and bans corporal punishment from schools, has been waiting to become a full-fledged law for more than a decade. The Supreme Court ordered a ban on corporal punishment in 2000. But enforcement is weak and it has been implemented in only 17 of 28 states. According to the 2007 report, Delhi was one of four states in India where corporal punishment is most common...
...quickly during the early stages of a new disease outbreak. In Egypt, authorities culled some 300,000 pigs - even though there was no evidence that the H1N1 virus was circulating in these pigs or was actively passing from pigs to people. In France, authorities have said they want to ban flights to and from Mexico, even though WHO officials and other epidemiologists say such extreme measures are likely to hurt far more than they'll help. (The E.U. rejected the French request on Thursday.) "The risk of collateral damage [on top of the flu] is very real," says Michael Osterholm...
...fleeting expletives" •FCC ban on is upheld by Scalia-led Supreme Court majority...
...strict restrictions wouldn't have some effect on slowing the virus. In a 2006 study, Harvard epidemiologists John Brownstein and Kenneth Mandl examined the effect of the sharp reduction in air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks on that year's flu season. They found that the initial flight ban and general decline in air travel in the weeks after delayed the onset of the flu season but did little to reduce the overall number of infections and deaths that year...