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...society. The problem is that our government does very little to support working mothers. We hope that Angela Merkel, our first woman Chancellor, may be able to promote policies that bring mothers into the workforce. The combining of career and children has to be made possible in the nearest future. We have a strong will to integrate women in all parts of social life, but the government has to help us make that a reality. Benedikt Fischer Würzburg, Germany
...found anywhere. "You just don't get this sort of archaeological signature," says Michael Westaway, executive officer of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. "This is a story, really, for everybody." Today the prints look as sharp as if their makers had just hurried over the top of the nearest dune. "Almost as good as a footprint in wet sand," Webb says. Since the 2003 find, which was announced last December, his team has uncovered around 460 human prints crisscrossing the site like the traces of a peak-hour crowd, many deeply impressed in the sediment, clearly showing where...
...total number of blank votes would be divided among the 33 candidates on the basis of the percentage of the counted vote accrued by each. That formula pushed Mr. Preval, who even by the CEP's count had won more than four times the number of votes of his nearest rival, over the 50 percent mark, and prompted a massive celebration by hundreds of thousands of supporters who had taken to the streets in protest to defend their vote...
...total number of blank votes would be divided between the 33 candidates on the basis of the percentage of the counted vote accrued by each. That formula pushed Mr. Preval - who even by the CEP's count had won more than four times the number of votes of his nearest rival - over the 50 percent mark, and prompted a massive celebration by hundreds of thousands of supporters had taken to the streets in protest to defend their vote...
Antitrust clearance may take several months, but early indications are that it may not pose a huge problem. The combined company would be three times the size of its nearest competitors, with a 10% share of the world steel market, but Mittal and Arcelor don't have many territorial or product overlaps that could cause problems with regulators. Hermann Reith, analyst with BHF-Bank in Frankfurt, says he reckons the chances of the deal going through are now more than 50%. "We will look at this issue, as always, very carefully on competition grounds only. The regulation gives...