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...daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted by a pro-Socialist crowd, Le Pen leaped out of his car and tore into the throng with fists flying. He violently pushed local mayor and Socialist candidate Annette Peulvast-Bergeal into a wall, shouting, "We're fed up with you people, don't you know that?" Such storm-trooper tactics have not deterred growing numbers of voters from backing the Front. In the past two years, Le Pen's forces have won control of four cities in the south of France. And the way they are running...
...import of ivory are illegal because of a 1989 international agreement that declares elephants a "most endangered" species. Namibia's treasure is, practically speaking, worthless, as are the hoards sitting in neighboring Zimbabwe and Botswana--an estimated $8 billion worth at last count. All three nations are, frankly, fed up with having to sit on all that wealth. So when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) assembles for its biennial meeting this week in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, delegates from around the world will be asked to consider taking the highly controversial step of lifting the seven...
BETTER WITH BREAST MILK Breast-fed babies are about half as likely to develop ear infections or diarrhea as those on formula. A mix of both also confers protection, but less...
...Reserve jacked up interest rates to keep prices from getting out of hand. But these days, inflation is barely on the radar screen, even though the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.9%, a level not seen since Richard Nixon was President. That astonishes Princeton economist Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman. If he had bet on such results four years ago, Blinder notes, "I could have got odds of 10,000 to 1 [against them]. That's how unexpected this expansion has been...
PREEMIE PROBLEMS Very premature babies fed intravenously with calcium gluconate--a life-saving formula--may wind up with impaired mental development. It contains aluminum, which could be bad for babies' brains...