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...vultures - despite their morbid reputation - will certainly respond warmly to human assistance. As the vulture barbershop quartet sings to Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book, "We're your friends to the bitter ends ... Who's always eager to extend a friendly claw...
...Humboldt University, who believes vehemently that the laws should stay. "The criminalization of the use of Nazi symbols ... is justified because of Germany's Nazi history and Germany's historic responsibility," he says. "Germany's criminal legislation has a special symbolic significance." Jessberger says the laws could even justifiably extend to Hitler-saluting gnomes. "You could argue the garden gnome doesn't endanger public peace ... because as a work of art it poses no concrete danger. However, under existing criminal law, the mere abstract danger of harming the state and public peace is sufficient to establish criminal responsibility...
...believe that was? Now you ask me, Do I think it's worth it? Of course. It was my grandmother. So anything that would relieve her pain or her suffering or extend her life in a way that she wished is something I wanted to do, and I would have paid for it out of pocket if I had to. But not every family is going to make those same decisions. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...conservatives have argued against more punitive steps, saying Zelaya was a menace who had to be taken down. The coup was launched as the leftist leader tried to push through a vote allowing Presidents to stand for a second term--an action seen as an effort to extend his power, as ally Chávez has done in Venezuela. The interim government has now charged the exiled Zelaya with crimes including treason for the attempt...
...over the next decade or so. Italy has just reversed a 22 year-old freeze on building new nuclear plants; Rome aims to use nuclear power to help reduce foreign-energy imports, and cut costs by 30% in the coming years. Belgium and Sweden are considering revising laws to extend the life of existing reactors, and to open the door to newer nuclear technology. Britain plans at least four new nuclear reactors, while Japan has two new plants under construction to add to its existing stable of 53. Even the oil-rich Middle East has taken its first step toward...