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Refusing to take an alternate route, the defiant drivers left their vehicles in the street. About three dozen police reinforcements and several antiriot trucks arrived to cordon off the forbidden zone. The resulting traffic jam blocked one of the capital's busiest intersections and set the scene for a two-day standoff that turned into the largest political rally since the country's unprecedented liberalization process began last summer...
...setting annual quotas ever since. For this season the permissible commercial take had dwindled to 13,851 whales, 80% of them small minkes. That was less than a third of the total eight years ago. Hunting of such endangered species as the blue, bowhead, right and humpback is now forbidden altogether, except by or on behalf of Eskimos and other native peoples, while sperms may be taken only by coastal-based ships...
...neighboring Honduras the transitional regime, fearing that missionaries will import radicalism, has forbidden any new Maryknollers to join the small component of priests and nuns already there working with the poor...
...system is not foolproof. Neither version will be able to spot a plane that does not carry at least a transponder, which indicates a plane's location to inquiring signals from the ground or another aircraft. But such planes are already forbidden to fly in busy air lanes near major cities. Adds Helms: "Sure, there is still a possibility of a collision, but the probability will be drastically reduced." Besides, allows the ex-Marine pilot, the only way to get 100% protection is "to ground all planes except one." Presumably, with Helms in the cockpit...
Five subjects were traditional no-nos at English dinner parties: sex, politics, religion, illness and the servant problem. Now, according to the first book of etiquette published in Britain in more than 50 years, the forbidden list is down to two: malicious gossip and porn movies. Anything else can be discussed, even in "heated conversation," as long as guests have the wit to avoid the four dreadful icebreakers (Do you live in London? What do you do? Have you any children? Have you been abroad this year?). And if the soup is scorching hot, a guest should spit...