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INDIA Back from the Brink in the Kashmir Conflict India lifted its five-month ban on pakistani commercial aircraft flying through its airspace and ordered its five battleships back to port from the Arabian Sea. In a further effort to reduce tensions with its nuclear armed neighbor, India resumed diplomatic relations by selecting its new High Commissioner to Pakistan. While these moves coincided with the arrival in the region of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Indian officials said they came in response to indications that terrorist infiltration into Indian-administered Kashmir had slowed or stopped in the past two weeks...
...ATHLETICS Doping Doubts Allegations that an American gold medal winner at the 2000 Olympics failed a drugs test a year before emerged during a World Anti-doping Agency summit in Montreal. According to a confidential enquiry chaired by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, the unnamed athlete tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone in July 1999. The athlete was given a two-year ban in March 2000, but was exonerated on appeal in time for the U.S. Olympic trials in July. The American governing body USA Track and Field (USATF) refuses to name the offender, one of 17 who failed...
...Percentage of young Californians who are overweight. The Oakland school district is rolling out the nation's first district-wide ban on selling junk food in school buildings...
...council voted to ban the commissioning ceremony from Harvard property, a proposal which was ignored by the University. In 1999 it voted to request that the University permit on-campus recruiting and provide direct funding and shuttle bus service to MIT, a resolution that was also refused...
While the committee stopped short of calling for an explicit ban on outsourcing in its report, the recommendations required contractors to pay wages and benefits that are at least equal to those paid to unionized Harvard employees...