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...National Assembly stripped him and two other M.P.s of parliamentary immunity. Rainsy, who is charged with defaming senior government figures, said he would return once he received details of the allegations against him. MEANWHILE IN CHINA ... Nothing to Crow About So much for the hen that lays the golden egg. The Chinese year of the chicken - which dawns this week - has brought hard times for vendors of the nation's New Year toy mascots. 2004's year of the monkey saw huge demand for toy simians. But surplus plastic roosters and terry-cloth chicks are still crowding store shelves...
...Risk. Getting a good return on your private account is up to you. If you make poor choices, you can lose money, and your nest egg will suffer. Invest too conservatively, and you will not be able to make up for the cuts in benefits...
Over-the-counter access to emergency contraception is a crucial resource for all women, especially because it can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, but it is not an abortion. Emergency contraception can stop the egg fertilization and implantation necessary for pregnancy, but it has no effect on an implanted egg if a woman is already pregnant. It therefore provides an important option for women who want to avert pregnancy, especially if they do not want to choose abortion. Given that the drug’s effectiveness is directly linked to how soon after sex it is taken, making it available...
...strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...upside-down A becomes a drippy ice-cream cone or a sideways E turns into an electric plug. Ernst's ingenuity is equal even to the challenge of letters that don't change when turned, like O (a bagel, an owl's eye, a fried egg) and X (a railroad-crossing sign, a treasure map's end, a ballerina's shoe ribbons...