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...what he wants. The federal government announced plans this autumn to decriminalize personal possession and consumption of cannabis. Sometime this spring it will unveil proposals to regulate shops and growers, a move that could involve Dutch-style tolerance, subject to a few conditions: sales restricted to certain outlets and forbidden to minors or foreigners. After parliamentary debate, a new law could take effect in 2002. "We certainly don't want to become a country which exports cannabis," says Zeltner, "and the Swiss government will not take the step of legalizing the substance." But well-dressed men are already rolling joints...
...Forbidden Drink...
...When you belong to a community it's probably easier in general not to drink. But we are expressly forbidden from drinking alcohol," says Zayed M. Yasin '02, President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Islamic Society. "It's something most Muslims take quite seriously...
...promotes have fed the AIDS epidemic in Africa perhaps more than any other factors. In Malawi, where until the end of dictator Hastings Banda's rule in 1994 women were barred from wearing short skirts and men could be jailed for having long hair, public discussion of AIDS was forbidden. According to the government, AIDS didn't exist inside Malawi. Catherine Phiri, 38, knew otherwise. She tested positive in 1990, after her husband had died of the disease. Forced to quit her job as a nurse when colleagues began to gossip, she sought refuge with relatives in the capital, Lilongwe...
...uniforms, Assistant Principal Anastasia Halicki patrols the halls of Stephen F. Gale Elementary School to ensure that skirts don't rise higher than two finger widths above the knee. The majority of girls, of course, know better than to wear their most risque clothes to school. Tube tops are forbidden at Oliver McCracken Middle School in Skokie, Ill., but Sarah Roberts, 11, wears hip huggers and skimpy T shirts on the weekend. Even in the dead of winter, a bulky sweater simply won't do. "Boys just notice if skin is showing," she explains, adding that fourth-grade boys line...