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...Bruce Crumley...
...sale of contraband cigarettes. But the price hikes are at last inspiring French smokers to kick butts. Last year, the number using nicotine patches grew by 30% to 2 million; antidepressants prescribed for quitting smokers rose by 20%. A big year for France 's tough-love tax. - By Bruce Crumley Work Longer! Troubled Commerzbank, Germany 's third-largest bank, announced an end to company pension schemes for its 26,000 employees by 2005. Meanwhile, German insurer Gerling plans cuts of up to 50% in retirement plans for around 5,000 of its own employees...
...going to close this company and tell my employees, 'Sorry, but I can do better elsewhere. Blame the government.' My employees and companies like this are the solution, not the problem. Our job is to prove that by succeeding - and live better, fuller lives for it." - By Bruce Crumley BOHEMIA: E.U. HEADACHES For many people, headcheese - a seasoned loaf customarily made of pig's- head meat molded in aspic - is a culinary turnoff. But for Jirí Hlavácek, a butcher in Susice, south Bohemia, it was for years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlav...
...proposal that continues to divide social and religious communities as well as political parties. - By Bruce Crumley Phantom Victory U.K. Environmental group Friends of the Earth won its campaign to stop a British company from breaking up a fleet of toxic U.S. Navy "ghost ships" after a high court judge ruled that the license awarded to dismantler Able UK was invalid. The fate of four ships already in the U.K. was unclear. Blow to ETA FRANCE Police arrested four suspected members of the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA, including its alleged military leader and chief of logistics, in the southwestern...
...core supporters and Saudi authorities--much like the conflict in Algeria that has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past decade. "As in Algeria," he says, "jihadists in Saudi Arabia are telling the people, You're either with us or against us." --By Scott MacLeod and Bruce Crumley...