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BRITAIN Firemen Strike, Brits Shrug If the compositions of Bach and Mozart send some listeners into raptures, they also send some folks packing. Danish railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike...
...fines. This year, Italian police have arrested 1,329 people for music-copyright violation alone, says Luca Vespignani, a music anti-piracy official who works for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But all too often, software providers say, pirates get off too easily. In March of 1998, Danish police conducted a raid against a piracy ring which had produced 125,000 cd-roms containing counterfeited software with a retail value of $237 million. Yet the pirates got off with suspended sentences and small fines. "They were back in business within a few months," says Beth Scott, vice president...
...Verbatim "This is the world's safest island." APIRAK HONGTHONG, police colonel and head of Phuket's immigration office, responding to Danish warnings of an attack on Thailand's popular getaway...
...state (it was colonized by Denmark and has never fully seceded from it)—comprised of 18 islands located between Iceland and Scotland. It may be loosely considered part of Scandinavia. Indeed, Mikkelsen fits the blond-haired, clear-blue-eyed, fair-skinned stereotype and speaks Danish and English fluently in addition to Faroese—ironic, because he feels passionately about the Faroe Islands’ independence movement from Denmark, and applied to Harvard partly because it is not in Copenhagen or anywhere else in Denmark...
...would dwarf Britain's other leading universities. Feta Accompli? In the latest decision to give geographic protection to food, the European Commission ruled that the label feta can only be used on cheese from Greece - outraging the non-Greek producers who make three quarters of the world's feta. Danish firms vowed to fight the decision, but Italians may also want to point out that the word feta is originally from Latin, not Greek. BOTTOM LINES "I know very well that the Stability Pact is stupid." Romano Prodi, European Commission President, admitting that E.U. deficit limits are too rigid...