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...been part of Macedonia's democratic political process, rather than waging war in the hills. NATO leaders coaxed and cajoled the Macedonian authorities into accepting a deal to substantially improve the political lot of their Albanian countrymen, a deal the alliance hopes will persuade the guerrillas to lay down their arms - or, more correctly, turn them over to NATO soldiers. But the ongoing guerrilla attacks on soldiers and civilians have led many Macedonians to charge that the rebels are fighting to create a separate territory rather than expand their rights within the Macedonian state, and this has raised fears that...
...According to Walsh, the Church is well aware of the priest shortage - and leaders are taking "appropriate" actions to reverse the trend. "Right now we have about 35,000 people studying to become lay ministers," she says. "Once they?ve completed their studies, they can take on many of the duties traditionally taken on by priests. They won?t be able to perform the sacraments, like marriages and funerals, but they can bring communion to the sick...
Although evolution has been the subject of decades of derision and court battles, it finally emerges triumphantly as one of the three greatest theories of our time. Along with relativity and quantum physics, evolution forms the cornerstone of human understanding of nature. Your article, aimed at the lay reader, is one of the best scientific pieces I've read in years. It puts man where he belongs. He is part of the cosmos, driven relentlessly by evolution and emerging by pure chance, not by any divine fiat. VU NGUYEN Chino Hills, Calif...
...insists contributed the most to making him who he is today. He recalls coming home after finding out from the bank that he had bounced another round of checks to suppliers, shamefacedly admitting to his wife he had blown it again, then walking into the bedroom where his son lay sleeping and wondering how he would ever provide them with a better life. His business shortcomings were not for lack of effort or seriousness?he had been using his vaunted scientific reasoning, yet every time he launched a new venture, he would be blindsided by a real-estate downturn...
...using its best rhetoric to discourage layoffs - threatening to forbid them in profitable companies, for example - jobs in France are also disappearing. Alcatel, the big French telecom firm, announced that it will close all but 12 of its 120 manufacturing plants worldwide. Food giant Danone said it was laying off 570 people, while Marks & Spencer, the British department store giant, initially announced it would eliminate 1,700 jobs in France as part of a decision to close all of its stores on the Continent. Now the firm says it may try to find a buyer for its French operations...