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Woods, however, prefers the Prague dry-cleaner joke to Damrosch’s—his is funnier, he writes in an e-mail, because “it is not hypothetical, like the joke you ask me to comment on from Leo Damrosch...
...Industry and Trade says the country needs at least 100 million E.U. allowances if it is to sustain its gdp growth rate of about 4% from this year to 2007. Too few allowances could stifle growth in the new E.U. states, while too many would not motivate investment in cleaner technologies. Meanwhile, some larger countries are dragging their feet. Italy, Poland, Greece and the Czech Republic have submitted national plans that still await European Commission approval...
...response, "I don't reprimand, and don't tell me how to raise my child." Older teachers say they are seeing in children as young as 6 and 7 a level of disdain for adults that was once the reserve of adolescents. Some talk about the "dry-cleaner parents" who drop their rambunctious kids off in the morning and expect them to be returned at the end of the day all clean and proper and practically sealed in plastic...
...says there's only one case when government has an obligation to intercede in the liberty of one: when that liberty hurts another. What [New York City] Mayor Bloomberg did was to prevent harm. I was down in the Village last week, and it's packed. The restaurants are cleaner. They're making more money. I was in Washington this week, and I couldn't go anywhere smoke-free...
...more people coming down with allergies and autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis (MS)? One theory is that we live in cleaner environments than previous generations and are exposed as children to fewer microbes. A new study of 400 Australians supports this so-called hygiene hypothesis. Researchers report that test subjects who had the greatest number of younger siblings and who were separated in age from them by less than six years were the least likely to develop MS. Apparently, all the infections they caught from the younger kids helped train their immune system not to attack their own nerves, which...