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...automotive magazine Auto Plus reported that traffic police are routinely given arrest and fine quotas for moving violations. That, Auto Plus contends, makes ticketing drivers for bogus offenses almost obligatory for cops who fear their promotion relies on meeting targets. Interior Ministry officials have acknowledged that quota systems exist in some localities, but say they are probably useful in bringing French road violence numbers down further...
...emergence of Kurdistan has fostered a sense of self-confidence here," says Sezgin Tanrikulu, a prominent lawyer in Diyarbakir. "Not because people want independence. Or to live there. But it shows that there is indeed a distinct Kurdish culture. For a long time we were told 'you don't exist', 'there's no such thing as a Kurd,' and yet, look, there they...
Pretty nearly all the animal species that existed during Earth's history are gone. There may be at least 8 million species of life on the planet right now, but there are many millions more that exist only as fossils or in the mind's eye of zoologists. In this week's cover story for our annual Environment issue, Bryan Walsh writes that there have been five great waves of extinction in the planet's history--the most recent being 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs bit the dust. Now, he suggests, we may be entering the sixth. Some...
...Rodoreda’s final work, it is easy to forget how unlikely the publication of the book is. In Francisco Franco’s anti-Catalan Spain, Rodoreda faced not only suppression and exile but the extinction of her native language. Under Franco, Catalan’s very existence was threatened, banned outright in the public sphere and severely curtailed in the private sphere. In this context, while translations of Spanish language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained obscure, even after Franco’s death in 1975, when...
...have not necessarily experienced sexual assault. OSAPR sent out a survey over email lists a few weeks ago, which asked students to respond to six questions. “[The questions were like] ‘How would your life be different if sexual assault didn’t exist anymore?’ and ‘What needs to happen to end it?’” OSAPR Director Sarah A. Rankin says. “We got an enormous response, which was really impressive.” The editors of “Saturday Night?...