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Calling in gay--Refusing to work on Dec. 10 as part of an Internet-organized movement to protest California's recent ban on same-sex marriage...
...people that you are driving by are more afraid of the Taliban than they are of you,” he said. Galasco, a senior military analyst for the Human Rights Watch, said he was optimistic that civilian casualties in Afghanistan might decrease due to the ban on cluster munitions, which Afghanistan signed despite protests from the U.S. While the focus of the talk was Afghanistan, much was said about Pakistan and its relationship with the U.S. Lodhi, who has not only served as an ambassador to the U.S. but also the high commissioner from Pakistan to Great Britain, characterized...
...Second, prices have come down to the point where a high-tech lamp doesn't need to be much more expensive than a traditional incandescent one. Perhaps most significantly, governments are now getting involved in energy-saving efforts. Last year, Australia became the first country to announce it is banning incandescent bulbs (from 2010). Britain is also moving to phase them out: from January, no incandescent bulbs of 100 W or more will be sold. In October, a meeting of European Union energy ministers supported calls for an E.U.-wide ban on these bulbs, but the exact timing...
...Norway Cluster-Bomb Ban...
...campaign received a big boost last month when the European Commission proposed a ban on the use of great apes in scientific procedure testing across Europe (behavioral studies will still be allowed). But such a ban is still unforeseeable in America, where an estimated 3,100 great apes remain in captivity...