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...landmark new deal, the EU will begin to move slowly away from production-linked subsidies that it has used since its founding in 1958. In its place, farmers will be paid a fixed subsidy based on the size of their farm, adjusted to discourage industrial farming practices by remunerating efforts to protect the environment and care for the countryside. Since farmers won’t be guaranteed a minimum price for their entire harvest, they will have to pay more attention to market demand and will be motivated to shift from crops that were heavily subsidised to those in which...
...people took to the streets of Hong Kong again last week, eight days after the half-million-person rally that rattled the ruling structure of the Chinese territory. This time they held a nighttime "vigil" outside the colonial landmark that houses the Legislative Council (Legco), Hong Kong's quasi-representative parliament. As solons debated a soccer-gambling bill inside, protesters carpeted the surrounding streets, waving Glowsticks, chanting slogans and singing We Shall Overcome in Cantonese and English. A Christian procession carried candles. Yellow-shirted devotees of the Falun Gong mystical movement?still legal in Hong Kong despite its Public Enemy...
...These themes play just as well in the sequel as in the original. This time around, Aoshima and the rest of the Wangan Police Station get thrown into an even larger, more tangled web of crime involving multiple murders and a terrorist plot to blow up Tokyo's landmark Rainbow Bridge. And before they can start sorting through the evidence themselves, the know-it-alls from headquarters invade again, certain that the Wangan police just aren't up to the job. Though slicker than the first movie, the seriocomic tone remains, and the crime-related plot lines are still secondary...
...suspect they may be taking part in the clandestine radio movement. "The station worked not only as a public-opinion medium," recalls Greenpeace head Chen Der-li, "but also as a command center to announce rally activities and to mobilize supporters to the democratic movement." The DPP won a landmark presidential election...
...While it may stretch the limits of adolescence to anoint a 78-year-old as Asia's new comeback kid, there's little doubt that India's once fading leader has returned with a bang. Abroad, he's never been so well received: before clinching the landmark deal with China, Vajpayee made a whirlwind tour of Russia, Germany and France for bilateral talks on the sidelines of this summer's G-8 summit. For the third time in his six-year term, he's expending political capital to try to make peace with neighboring Pakistan. At home, Vajpayee's star...