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...With the country's health system in ruins and alcohol producers barely regulated, the initiatives are wise, said Dr. Ronaldo Laranjeira, the Sao Paulo doctor who led the U.S.-Brazilian team studying the ban's effects. "It is cheap," Laranjeira said, "and shows that alcohol-related violence can be tackled...
...government officials must pronounce only the word 'ruble.'" VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, leader of Russia's nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, who supports pending legislation that would ban officials from using dollars and euros in public statements, and merchants from posting prices in foreign currencies...
After the first Gulf War, in which five female service members were killed in action and two taken prisoner, Congress lifted the ban on women serving on combat ships. The Pentagon scrapped the rule that barred women from assignments with a high risk of facing enemy fire. Now women are excluded from only 9% of Army roles (though that represents nearly 30% of active-duty positions); 99% of all occupations and positions in the Air Force are open to women, and in the Navy, women are excluded from only SEAL teams and submarines...
...mini-riot erupted just as a United Nations panel monitoring compliance with the U.S.-ratified "Convention Against Torture" called on Washington to close Gitmo. The panel also urged the U.S. to ban interrogation techniques that critics have described as torture and to stop the secret transfer of prisoners to other countries...
...World Cup. Under arrest for trying to sneak into the football match disguised as boys, the girls await their punishment - but being so tantalizingly close to the game is torture enough. One of the captives debates with a reluctant guard about the logic of Iran's law banning women from stadiums. "There are lots of men in there," he argues. "They'll be cursing and swearing." Without missing a beat, she replies: "We promise not to listen." In his newest movie Offside (released in Britain on June 9, the first day of the World Cup), Iranian director Jafar Panahi uses...