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...Britain has the seventh highest divorce rate in Europe, 2.8 a year for every 1,000 people, according to Eurostat (at top is the Czech Republic). But is Britain about to leap up the chart? It could. Landmark rulings by Britain's House of Lords last week may, some lawyers predict, make England and Wales a divorce magnet, because the rulings have been so generous to financially dependent spouses. In one case, the judges upheld a $9.4 million award to a woman who'd been married to a fund manager worth $60 million. In the second case, the judges lifted...
...know - I did it last week). Proportions on the Continent are slightly higher, but there's clearly no rush to go green or - shudder - stop driving cars. Why such a disconnect between information and action? Part of the problem is that environmental advocates emit mixed messages. In mid-May, Britain's Guardian published a front-page story showing that five companies in Britain produce more CO2 pollution in a year than all the country's motorists combined. That's a strong argument for targeting industry, but the average reader could hardly be blamed for thinking, "Why should I bother...
...BERMUDA, Britain's oldest colony, is already largely self-governing, but a determined minority of the North Atlantic territory's 65,000 residents--led by Premier Alex Scott--have been pushing full independence for years...
...loses scores of admitted would-be engineering undergrads to schools with better-developed and better-hyped engineering programs—like Stanford, Princeton, and MIT—is a bad thing, right? Not necessarily.American college students take part in a unique educational tradition. Unlike their peers in Canada or Britain (or South Africa, or Indonesia, or just about anywhere else), undergraduates in this country profit from a liberal arts philosophy that seeks to produce well-educated citizens, not well-trained professionals. As the current Harvard College Curricular Review continues to seek new ways to liberalize undergraduate academics, most recently...
...nerve! The church's policy against artificial contraception is nothing short of medieval. Mary Thomas Garden Grove, California, U.S. The Fruits of Colonialism Re "Exit strategies" [may 8], on European anti-immigration policies: Perhaps the right-wing elements in the governments of France, Britain and the Netherlands should stop and consider why there are immigrants in their countries. Could it be because Europeans interfered with and exploited so many parts of the world? It is said that history repeats itself. And where Europe has finished, the U.S. has taken over, which is why there will always be human beings searching...