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...Landes Berlin (bkk) - a state health-insurance scheme - made unannounced home visits to workers in Berlin who had been off sick at least five times in the previous year, claiming minor ailments. Of the 65,000 people they visited, 53% were diagnosed as being fit for work. Says François de Closets, author of several books on anti-competitive attitudes in France: "There are people who take a day more or less unjustifiably and suddenly, well, another to have a long weekend." Of course, some workers are more likely to be absent than others, often for legitimate reasons...
...teacher. Scanning and printing features allow the child to receive and hand in homework assignments. The pilot project is still being refined. Next step, the creators say, is a robot that can go into the halls too, so that the ailing student can chat with friends between classes. --By Fran Stewart...
...unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield under Thunderclouds...
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Chaos, Continued Embattled President Ange-Felix Patasse called on 1,000 soldiers from the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, a notorious foreign militia, to smash a rebel advance on Bouar, the C.A.R.'s second-largest military base. Since October, rebels loyal to ex-army chief François Bozize have seized 70% of the country, cutting food supplies to the capital. The fighting is the latest in a series of mutinies and coups that began in 1996. Patasse accused France, the former colonial power, of "discrimination" for not sending troops to help the government...
...nasty squabble over "open skies" agreements that would widen competition on lucrative transatlantic routes. E.U. courts banned the individually negotiated deals between 11 member states and the U.S., saying they should be arranged en bloc. When the U.S. appeared to undercut that decision by offering to sweeten the deals, François Lamoureux, the Commission's director-general for transport, threatened last week to drag into court any state that accepts. But E.U. efforts to draw up a new deal aren't expected to break the sound barrier - and meanwhile, airlines complain, they're left flying in legal limbo...