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...billion to the U.N. and has shrunk its development aid to 0.11% of gdp, about one-third of the rich-country average, despite record U.S. budget surpluses. It has stayed outside many important recent treaties that Europe endorses: the land mine convention, the International Criminal Court, the comprehensive test ban-and Bush sees no reason to change any of that. U.S. opposition scuppered recent efforts led by Europe to build on the Kyoto limits for greenhouse gases; Bush, the former oil man, has an energy policy devoted to burning more fossil fuels. European leaders worry that Bush's idea...
...Just when consumers were starting to feel good about eating British meat again, a new health hazard erupted, throwing the farming industry into crisis. The discovery of at least six outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in English pigs prompted the government to ban exports of all livestock, milk and meat products until March 1. The outbreak could cost the industry as much as $75 million. Though the disease is not lethal to humans, it is devastating to animals and highly contagious. Citizens were urged to forgo potentially risky activities such as visiting farms, fox hunting and even taking walks...
...Alberto Fujimori's plummeting public image reached another low as the Peruvian Congress voted to charge the former President with abandonment of office and ban him from holding any other post for an additional 10 years. The Congress has already declared Fujimori morally unfit for the presidency, and the Attorney General's office is mulling criminal charges, which it would file in the Supreme Court. The measures won't have much effect on their intended target, however: Fujimori fled to Japan last November, obtained citizenship and has signaled no intention of returning to Peru...
...decision to showMiss Julie on a Sunday, brought the Brattle to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in favor of the theater in 1955. From then on, state commissioners would no longer be able to ban Sunday movie screenings...
Rosen pointed out that Napster's agreement to ban access to certain files seems to be in contradiction with previous claims that it was impossible for the service to sort out specific songs...