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...rather than encouraging society to change, only changes things when they are absolutely sure they won't upset anyone." Under French law, Bedos cannot marry his partner of six years, 42-year-old Gilles Kleitz. Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium allow same-sex couples to wed, but France and Britain recognize only a form of civil union. And no country has yet drafted legislation that would legitimize the family structure Bedos and Kleitz have adopted. Together with Nathalie Jobard, 42, and Sophie Rajzman, 38, they are parents to daughter Louise, who turns 4 this month...
...cloned the first human embryo, was discredited late last year after he confessed to falsifying many of his results. Liberal laws and renewed funding, meanwhile, are pushing Europe toward the front of the field. The UK Stem Cell Foundation, a private charity, is raising $185 million for research in Britain, and the British government will match up to $18.5 million a year for 10 years. After loosening restrictions on human embryonic stem-cell research in 2004, Spain invested j150 million in a 32,000-sq-m research center in Valencia. The European Union has given a total of j11.9 million...
...occurred while processing this directive] far more prepared than they would have been even a year ago. The London storm was not literal, but political: Nicholas Stern, a respected former World Bank economist, released his long-awaited report on the long-term economic impact of climate change. Commissioned by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and embraced by Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Stern report rejected the conventional argument that combatting climate change is bad news for the global economy. On the contrary, Stern determined that inaction would bring far worse economic consequences. If developed nations...
...Karzai. Reports that the deal had been brokered in part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually considered issuing an ultimatum to Musharraf to either close down the Taliban and arrest its leaders operating from Pakistan, or face the consequences. Instead, they opted to leave the matter for President Bush to deal with at Wednesday's dinner...
...NATO countries was instructive: They agree that Pakistan should be pressured to end its backing of the Taliban and arrest Taliban commanders who operate openly in the Pakistani border city of Quetta, where, NATO says, the command, control and logistical center of the Taliban insurgency is based. But Britain cautioned against openly confronting and pressuring Pakistan, reminding the others of the critical importance of its intelligence cooperation in foiling al-Qaeda plots, most recently the scheme to blow up airliners over the Atlantic...