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...remember waiting for a long time for buses in suburban California. Lack of public transport increases the number of vehicles on the roads, and that in turn reduces the amount of public transport. It is a vicious circle. Bangalore traffic is so bad that a chicken dare not cross the road. Palahalli R. Vishwanath Bangalore, India...
This is exactly why rape shield laws were enacted over 25 years ago—to prevent the disclosure of the survivor’s sexual history and the degrading cross-examination that focuses on the survivor’s behavior—how she acted, what she wore, whom was she with—but Bryant’s powerful team of lawyers managed to find cracks within the shield...
...September, when people come back from holiday. So I knew there was a book to be written." Determined to set foreigners straight about his adopted home, Clarke began compiling anecdotes. But he wanted a sexier protagonist than himself, so he opted for fiction and invented Paul West, "a cross between Hugh Grant and David Beckham." He also wanted to hide behind a pseudonym, not to avoid trouble with his employers, "but because if the book failed, I'd look like an idiot." That danger having receded, Clarke is using his own name for the U.K. edition. "I was a little...
...rival, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Modified Policy EUROPEAN UNION The European Commission gave its first approval to genetically modified seeds. The 17 strains of maize seed, engineered by U.S. biotech firm Monsanto to resist certain insects, can now be grown anywhere in the E.U. Environmental groups fear cross-contamination of conventional crops. Pay Up POLAND Parliament unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the government seek reparations from Germany for the destruction and losses suffered by Poland as a result of "German aggression, occupation and genocide" during World War II. The move was seen as a response to pressure...
DIED. SIR GODFREY HOUNSFIELD, 84, British electrical engineer who invented the C.T. scan, a diagnostic tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. In the 1960s he built the computerized axial tomography scanner, which uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who had worked independently on the idea...