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...secularist demonstration in Ankara, a chanting mob surrounded a woman passing by in a head scarf and ordered her to take it off; she pleaded with the crowd, but eventually removed it. In the run-up to elections next year, confrontations over Turkey's secular constitution are likely to grow. How will European governments respond to the claims of the religiously observant for protection? There is no single pattern applicable to all countries, but some - Germany, France and the Netherlands, for example - are now planning to help select and train "homegrown" imams instead of relying on a supply of less...
...Every child is pushed with too much homework, and every teenager is spoiled with too many luxuries. Teens have to apply to 12 colleges because they're competing against all the other overachieving youngsters. Once they graduate, you would think all young adults move home to mooch, unwilling to grow...
...been a journalist, a wanna-be skateboarder, a TV star and now you're in movies. What do you want to do when you grow...
...Europe's most dynamic, racing along at a 12% growth clip - faster than China. Estonia is one of only two new European Union members to have a budget surplus, and its national debt will have all but disappeared by the end of the decade. Naturally, there are growing pains: the unemployment rate has fallen so sharply, from 14% in 2000 to about 4% today, that businesses are scrambling to find workers. But even if growth slows a little to a more sustainable rate, Estonia could catch up with Portugal and Greece on a per-capita basis in about a decade...
...example, scientists in Sweden are studying how stem cells might be used to treat Parkinson's disease. A Belgian team is investigating whether they might be used to treat diabetes. Some researchers expect therapies for these diseases will require embryonic stem cells because of their potential to grow into all types of tissue, but many labs work with both cell types. "We're not sure where the breakthroughs will come," says David Macauley, chief executive of the UK Stem Cell Foundation. "Everybody expects it will come from embryonic stem cells, but the majority of stuff we are seeing...