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...Defense, move to the worsening relationship with Russia, and take in the harder line on North Korea and Iraq, and finally the tepid support for the E.U.'s ambitions in foreign and security policy. The U.K., a frequent arbiter between the U.S. and the Continent, couldn't close the gap this time. Environment Minister Michael Meacher criticized the U.S. and called global warming "the most dangerous and fearful challenge to humanity over the next 100 years." Even the burgeoning polluter China called the U.S. "irresponsible...
...nervous the night before she couldn't sleep. Chung has a few too. It's a miminal set: white walls, rotating ceiling fans, a plain dark wooden bed. Nonzee drapes a mosquito net over the bed and parts it so the camera can watch through a gap. The girls get up from behind the monitor in an adjoining room where Nonzee orchestrates the shots, take a big sigh and get ready to rumble. "Action!" The girls sit erect on the bed, kissing each other. Nonzee strains on a succession of cigarettes as he looks through the lens; he is concentrating...
...Paola La Falce, 34, an Italian who works for Universal Music in Paris, recalls her first trip to the U.K. 15 years ago: "It was incredibly different from where I came from. But now the center of London is just like the center of Milan - it's the same Gap and Levis stores. I'm nostalgic for that period when you really felt like you were somewhere else. I'm all for a united Europe, but I think we're losing something at the same time." That ambivalence about the momentum of European integration - and in a larger sense, globalization...
...That money gap raises fears that some talented East Europeans who leave for the West will never return. But even the most inveterate nomads, like Bilana Raeva, a 27-year-old Bulgarian who just completed an internship with the European Commission in Brussels, profess a desire to return home someday. "I feel at home everywhere, but when I go back to Bulgaria now, I feel like a tourist," says Raeva, who has already lived in Poland, the Netherlands and Spain. "But of course I'd like to go back. I want my kids to grow up in my country...
...gap continues to narrow: Related studies show that teenage girls are smoking more now than they have in 15 years, unlike their male peers, who are smoking less...