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...driving - solely responsible for 25% of France's road deaths last year - it will take longer to alter the macho attitude associating speed with virility. Such changes in culture and mindset, some experts say, will come only with imposed discipline over the long run. "Apart from a total alcohol ban, France doesn't need new laws, regulations or devices - rather, better enforcement of existing laws," says Wolfgang Hubner, director of the o.e.c.d.'s transport division in Paris. "The U.K., with roughly the same population as France, has decreased fatalities through tighter enforcement - which over time also produced a more generalized...
...past 20 years. Though one-third of all Saudis are unemployed, the kingdom imports 6 million foreign workers to fill the low-wage jobs Saudis don't want. Restive and jobless young Saudis have nowhere to turn in an antidemocratic society governed by puritanical social norms: Saudi authorities ban dance clubs and movie theaters, forbid women to drive and prohibit men and women from mixing in public. "That adds up to a fragile situation," says a U.S. official...
...more than 600 illnesses linked in Japan to Chinese diet pills?have alerted health authorities to a hazard they have been almost powerless to stop. Similar drugs were implicated in deaths in China last year, with scores more falling ill in Korea and Hong Kong. Japan last month banned 24 types of Chinese diet drugs?many containing N-nitroso fenfluramine?and rushed through new laws placing the burden on importers to prove product safety or face a fine of up to $26,000. Just last week, health officials in China published a ban on 13 diet products, seven of which...
Similar public hearings are occurring in other towns in the Boston area. Clean Air Works, the regional movement to ban smoking in area restaurants, is a coalition of local boards of health, non-profit health organizations, labor unions and workers...
Local prohibitions on smoking would also be more effective than a state-wide ban, because state action would be more open to legal challenges by tobacco companies that would lead to a “watered down” measure, said Howard K. Koh, commissioner of the Mass. Department of Public Health...