Word: bremen
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...voters. Their dislike of Bush alone ought to make the difference in the election. Those of us on this side of the Atlantic are tired of seeing the face of a man who has lied so much to his people and to the rest of the world. IGNATIUS ADEH Bremen, Germany...
...fear that an Iraq war would spread to other Muslim countries. Because Europe has a high percentage of Muslims and is in close geographical proximity to the Arab world, Europeans may have better insight into what will happen if the U.S. launches a unilateral strike. JAN SANDER Bremen, Germany...
DIED. IVAN ILLICH, 76, social critic and onetime Catholic priest whose iconoclastic views made him a hero to baby boomers in the 1970s; in Bremen, Germany. In essays and books like 1971's Deschooling Society, he criticized the Catholic Church, said public education shouldn't be mandatory and accused hospitals of making people sicker. He left the priesthood after the Vatican called him "politically immoral...
...open the valve on an IV drip themselves. Two witnesses are present - a Dignitas staff member and a relative of the client - to make sure this procedure is followed. Although the process sounds cold and clinical, "it's bittersweet and peaceful," says Johanna, a 38-year-old homemaker from Bremen, Germany, who accompanied her mother to Zurich earlier this year. She says her mother, who at 63 suffered from the terminal stages of bone cancer, "never wavered in her resolve to end her suffering this way. And I'm grateful she was given that chance." So far no formal complaints...
...areas," wrote George Bunn and Fritz Steinhausler at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the October issue of Arms Control Today. "Despite the danger, no multilateral treaty requires that nuclear material and facilities be protected from such attacks." Jürgen Sattari, spokesman for a Bremen-based environmental group called Robin Wood, said the November protesters had a simpler idea in mind: an earlier phase-out of nuclear power in Germany. "Our goal is to stop the use of atomic energy," he said, "and the transport of waste is one possibility to show the politicians that...