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...People know his shortcomings - Le Monde calls Fahrenheit 9/11 "simplistic and often demagogic" - but cheer him on anyway. His latest book, Dude, Where's My Country? , has been on the German best-seller lists for more than 30 weeks. The idea that this renegade could galvanize U.S. opinion and boost the Democratic ticket holds a certain appeal for Europeans. Bush is so unpopular in Europe, says French legislator Pierre Lellouche, that "the Democrats could nominate a horse" and draw more support. But the Constitution has no provision for equine candidates, and it's the American voter who will decide...
...signals. In much of Europe, labor and consumption are taxed - through social-security contributions and vat - at far higher rates on average than in the U.S., where property and corporate income taxes tend to be higher. That's at odds with the stated goals of many E.U. governments to boost consumer spending, employment and innovation. Some governments are already tinkering with their policies. In Belgium, for example, the government recently approved measures that would halve the social-security burden on firms that employ scientific researchers. France has gone even further. This year it established a new category of small company...
...attitudes, greater gender equality and rising consumer interest in all things natural means that nude holidays have come a long way since their early 20th century origins, when they were viewed by most people as eccentric at best, degenerate at worst. Today, the AANR rejoices in a 75% membership boost in the past decade (to almost 50,000). There is also evidence that other nationals are happy to strip off on holiday, whether they are committed nudists or not?one recent poll found that about 2.5 million Britons "experience naturism" at some time during the course of a normal vacation...
...needs to make sure its former employees "are not using the intellectual property that belongs to us elsewhere." But at a time when the site is already feeling the heat from insurgents like Yahoo Personals, Friendster and eHarmony, industry sources are snickering that its tactics may have given a boost to another foe. True.com really took advantage of this to generate publicity for itself," says Nate Elliott, an analyst at Jupiter Research. Guess it's too late to kiss and make up. --By Sonja Steptoe
...make up for lost time, Beijing has promised an enormous boost in energy infrastructure that, it says, will alleviate the shortfalls by 2006. The nation expects to double its energy capacity by 2010, to 650,000 megawatts. But even that Herculean effort, combined with a much-publicized plan to cool down the economy and relieve pressure on the energy sector, might not be enough. "It's a little hard to believe that if China maintains growth rates of 6-8% that all of a sudden these shortages will disappear overnight in 2006," says Joseph Jacobelli, a Hong Kong-based regional...