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...countries from one another," European Commission President Romano Prodi said recently. "We are all one big country." But such bromides only bolster European fears about lost national identity and fuel suspicions that even the most basic concerns of life, such as what we eat, are determined by the ruthless logic of the global marketplace and the unaccountable corporations and bureaucrats who run it. It's no surprise that the bse crisis has coincided with a crisis of confidence about European integration: a recent poll in Le Monde found that more than half of E.U. residents now oppose relinquishing their national...
...shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Strait of Hormuz, killing 290 people and fueling calls for revenge from hard-liners in the Iranian government. Pan Am 103 blew up less than six months after that incident, but more than two years after the bombing raids on Tripoli. The logic of revenge is inscrutable, certainly, but the idea of Iranian involvement was strongly suspected at the outset and still has not been universally abandoned. More central to Swire's argument: on Oct. 26 of the same year German police raided two apartments of the Popular Front for the Liberation...
...With a teenager's clear-eyed logic, Suman maintains that it is the parents who are least willing to confront that reality. "The children from Olofstorp don't have a bad attitude toward us; it's mostly the parents," she says. "They say that if the Swedish children don't form a joint class here, they will move them to another school." At the same time, she recognizes that the "Swedish" people are an integral part of Hjällboskolan. "You can't have a school with only immigrants," she explains, "because then the immigrants will be talking their...
Rare is the man who even knows his HIV status: males widely refuse testing even when they fall ill. And many men who suspect they are HIV positive embrace a flawed logic: if I'm already infected, I can sleep around because I can't get it again. But women are the ones who progress to full-blown AIDS first and die fastest, and the underlying cause is not just sex but power. Wives and girlfriends and even prostitutes in this part of the world can't easily say no to sex on a man's terms. It matters little...
...flaw in that "let's just all get along" logic is that as far as pro-life groups are concerned, the morning-after pill is just another form of abortion, as abhorrent as a surgical procedure. Asked to comment on the pill's pending appearance before the FDA, The National Right to Life Committee responded with a prepared statement: "Once fertilization has occurred, a new human life has begun and NRLC is opposed to destroying that new human life...