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...discrimination, most of it sanctified by religion?and ignored by law. This Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas is a man's world, and it seems determined to stay that way. A two-year attempt to change the civil code and go some way toward putting women on an equal footing with men has been bogged down in the national assembly for more than a month by opposition protests against government corruption and, along with other legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four sessions of the assembly and a Supreme Court ruling ordering a better deal...
...world standards, the proposed legislation is mild. It would give women equal rights to inherit property and divorce and, in certain circumstances, the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is currently a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail: some 80 women are behind bars. Most of them probably just had miscarriages, says Uprety. They were turned in by neighbors or relatives to settle a grudge or to grab property. For lawyer and women's rights activist Sapna Pradhan Malla, however, the struggle is not just about abortion or property rights. "It's a fight...
...halt. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who plans to meet President Bush in Washington this week, has overseen a scandal-ridden administration. His political colleagues are maneuvering to replace him within a month. Bush, meanwhile, has promised to treat Japan less as a pupil and more as an equal, which sounds diplomatic but not perhaps helpful. "They're going to have to figure out for themselves what to do," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told MONEY magazine...
...would think we had all stopped calling home or logging on. Not at all. Internet traffic continues to grow at the astonishing rate of 200% annually. Every 45 minutes, AT&T transmits a quantity of data--meaning everything from e-mail to streaming video--equal to 34 times the contents of the Library of Congress. But the broadband buildout has been so furious that it could take three years for the traffic to catch...
Though we recognize the Herald's reasoning, its decision was not the only one a responsible newspaper could have made. Advertising is a business decision, and newspapers are under no obligation whatsoever to print ads that they judge to be bad business. A newspaper has an equal right to decide whether it wishes to profit from the publication of a specific advertisement as to decide whether it will invest in tobacco stocks and profit from the sale of cigarettes...