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...reduction by 2003 in catches of the most popular commercial species in European waters. Fischler's proposal doesn't go far enough for some scientists, who warn that if even more drastic measures are not taken, depleted stocks may never recover. They are calling on the E.U. to ban trawlers from taking cod, haddock and whiting from the North Sea altogether. But even Fischler's proposal is enough to terrify and enrage fishermen. Alex Smith, chairman of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, claims that if fishery is reduced by 80%, the whole industry will collapse, at a cost...
...legislation forcing tobacco manufacturers to cover cigarette packets with stronger health warnings, remove the labels Mild and Light from their packaging and cease producing high-tar cigarettes within the E.U. - even if the cigarettes are destined for outside markets. The ruling comes one week after E.U. authorities agreed to ban most forms of cigarette advertising. Tobacco firms slammed the decision as flawed, but there is little they can do. And while it may cost companies tens of millions of euros to modify packaging, some doubt the bottom line will change. "It's not a material cost," says Martin Steinik...
...long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal involvement. They don't care to recall that when Lott suggested that Reagan's regime take...
...Kans. church infamous for its anti-gay demonstration at the funeral of hate crime victim Matthew Shepherd and for maintaining the website www.godhatesfags.com—announced last month that it will be picketing the commencement ceremony of Harvard Law School to protest the school’s proposed ban on offensive speech...
...extremists on campus will provide a convenient caricature of the religious right for us to snicker at, it also forces us towards a more serious evaluation of just how far we are willing to go in opposing homophobia. Even though WBC may be a bunch of deranged yahoos, the ban on offensive speech remains a bad idea. Although we may have trouble articulating where we draw the line, the fact is that most of us have at least drawn...