Word: non
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...Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday announced that France would be creating its own national sovereign fund to buy stocks in troubled private companies. On Tuesday, Germany had rejected Sarkozy's call to create a European-wide sovereign fund that could prevent Europeans waking up "to find European companies belong to non-European capital, bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage it against other currencies, and to significantly extend the term lengths of the rotating E.U. presidency - which France just happens to hold...
...right, Switzerland—a country run by adults—has granted the right of dignity to plants.The Monty-Pythonesque task of defining plants’ dignity was given, of course, to a twelve-person committee of scholars—the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH). The committee rose to the occasion by producing a 22-page report entitled: “The dignity of living beings with regard to plants. Moral consideration of plants for their own sake,” which went on to win the 2008 Ig Nobel Peace prize earlier this month.As...
...whole stage, and you need not hold your breath as she executes a series of turns with incredible speed and force (with one foot en pointe and the other barefoot, mind you). Cornejo’s raw energy and physicality was irresistible, helping to justify Kudelka’s non-traditional vision...
...leading Bears, and the No. 1 guy on the depth chart, senior Brian Anderson, remains questionable for tomorrow’s game.Princeton is last in the league in passes thrown, completed, and passing yards per game and if Anderson, for some reason, cannot recover from the injury to his non-throwing shoulder, the Harvard defense will likely have a field day.That doesn’t mean the Tigers don’t have an offensive attack. Shouldering most of the offensive load for Princeton is junior tailback Jordan Culbreath. A quick and physical runner who has already posted 481 yards...
...States like California, Indiana and New Jersey have banned political robo-calling outright, but such laws are routinely flouted - not only because few agencies enforce the rules but because voters are often unaware that their rights are being violated. Indiana's Attornery General unsuccessfully sued a Democratic non-profit group, American Family Voices, for launching a series of robo-calls against then-Rep. Mike Sodrel. Though the state's supreme court heard his appeal in June, it still hasn't issued its ruling...