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VARIOUS frequent strolls with boyfriend Ian Klaus...
...give up their tradition of choosing unwrapped donuts and other pastries with their hands, because of E.U. health regulations. There were pungent protests. Individually these sorts of changes don't amount to much, but collectively they make people nervous that their national cultures will disappear. Václav Klaus, a former Czech Prime Minister and a vocal euroskeptic, says, "We mustn't allow ourselves to dissolve in Europe like a sugar cube in a cup of tea." Another unhappy realization beginning to dawn on the applicants is that the fraternity they're joining is going to haze them. Full agricultural...
...Klaus Eckstein hopes that he will never have to go to Zurich. Four years ago the 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, who lives in Cambridge, England, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The disease was successfully treated with chemotherapy and surgery, "but if it returns and can no longer be cured, I am determined to go to Switzerland," Eckstein says. "I don't want to suffer needlessly." Eckstein would not be traveling to Zurich to see its famous Bahnhofstrasse. He would be part of a small but growing number of non-Swiss known grimly as "death tourists," terminally ill people...
...Justice Ministry has promised an appeal - though it's unlikely to succeed since the ruling is in line with the new law. Not only does Papon's release raise questions about France's willingness to confront accusations of recurrent anti-Semitism, it also suggests inequity in the justice system. Klaus Barbie, Germany's wartime head of the SS in Lyon, and pro-Nazi French militia leader Paul Touvier were both allowed to die of cancer in prison during the 1990s. But neither of those men had friends in the French power élite, nor did they have the March...
...which may explain this summer's exceptionally heavy monsoon in Bangladesh, Nepal and northeast India. But the cloud is not just a regional problem, the scientists stressed. East and Southeast Asia suffer similar haze problems, and "a pollution parcel ... can travel halfway round the globe in a week," said Klaus Toepfer, head of the U.N. program. On a more hopeful note, he added: "The Asian cloud is man-made, so it can be eliminated." MIDDLE EAST In the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time The death of a Palestinian man revived criticism that the Israeli army is using human shields...