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...France New Rules on Immigration On July 7, the European Union's 27 member states unanimously backed an effort to standardize and tighten their immigration and asylum policies. The pact (slated to be finalized at an October summit) was drafted by France, which has made immigration reform a centerpiece of the six-month E.U. presidency it assumed on July 1. Officials rejected criticism that the accord--which calls for stiffer border controls and expulsion policies and an alignment of asylum rules--was intended to crack down on immigration. The proposal reached consensus only after certain elements, including an "integration contract...
FRANCE President Nicolas Sarkozy ATTENDING Says he will attend in dual capacity as head of the European Union...
...much? The science is still murky, and human studies are few and far from definitive. So while Canada and the Democratic Republic of Wal-Mart are moving to ban BPA in baby bottles, the Food and Drug Administration maintains that BPA products pose no danger, as does the European Union. Even so, scientists like Mel Suffet, a professor of environmental-health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, say avoiding certain kinds of plastics is simply being better safe than sorry...
...Ronald Henry Ian Arrosas, ManilaI don't know of any designer, any brand, that is really global in its thinking. It may be global in its reach, but in terms of global in its thinking, that remains ahead of us. There's an American fashion culture, there's a European fashion culture, there are various flavors of Asian fashion culture. What's very interesting about the rise of fashion in Asia is that if you study fashion history, Asian cultures are maybe a chapter, and maybe only a paragraph. And there's a reason for that. The sari, the cheongsam...
...this year's G-8 summit?which marked the first time that leaders of the world's 16 biggest carbon emitters have sat down to talk about climate change?will be remembered as a lost opportunity. First of all, the 2050 pledge doesn't specify a baseline year. European leaders want to bring emissions down to 50% of 1990 levels, but host nation Japan seemed to indicate that it would be happy to use present-day levels. The difference in actual reductions would be enormous. So what appears to be a firm numerical target is just more hot aspirations?...