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...Nine European countries currently permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children: Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Sweden. Tuesday's ruling may be a boon for single homosexuals seeking to adopt children where unwed heterosexuals are allowed to do so. But Tanguy says it may also cause countries to shelve any plans to allow straight unmarried couples to adopt in order to keep gays and lesbians from doing the same...
...protect women against domestic violence, and in the succeeding months Zapatero's administration eased divorce laws, required gender parity in political parties, reduced the Catholic Church's influence in education, officially recognized victims of Franco's repression, and made Spain the third country in the world after Holland and Belgium to legalize gay marriage...
...nearly twice as high as England and Canada, eight times as high as the Netherlands and Japan - and in December, the Centers for Disease Control reported that the teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years. Likewise, the U.S. abortion rates are disproportionately high: Rates in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands are less than half that in the U.S. - fewer than 10 abortions per 1,000 women aged...
Starbucks has the gall to sling its lattes for coffee connoisseurs in Vienna, and Budweiser peddles its brew in Belgium. So why shouldn't Yum Brands--the Louisville, Ky.-based company that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and more--sell dumplings in a fast-growing market where Chinese food is just called food? Heck, while they're at it, why not sell tacos in Mexico? Yum is doing both, with the test-marketing of East Dawning in Shanghai and the opening of a Taco Bell in Monterrey last fall. Yum's iconoclastic CEO, David Novak, likens...
...uniform, and sing the same catchy song. And there is even a theory that their sworn enemies - evil wizard Gargamel, along with his mangy cat, Azrael - represent international capitalism. Peyo's family fiercely denies this and insists the stories are apolitical. But Peyo did use the Smurfs to satirize Belgium's endless language wars between French and Dutch speakers: in one album, he divides the village into two halves that fight over whether the term "smurf" should be used as a verb or as a noun...