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...Tracking HIV Yunnan is China's fourth largest province and historically one of its most mysterious and remote. (Its picturesque landscape of verdant hills and rustic villages inspired the legend of Shangri-La.) Its distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...
...purchasers of small, clean cars would receive a rebate. The plan is controversial in the French government and still needs final approval. But it reflects growing official sentiment against SUVs, which account for about 5% of car sales in France. Last month, Paris city council voted in principle to outlaw 4x4s in the capital, a symbolic move rather than a real ban. The French 4x4 Federation complains that the measures are an attempt to turn SUVs into "scapegoats for urban pollution" and denies that they pollute more than other vehicles. But French automakers Renault and Peugeot are sitting...
...have to decide whether to pardon him. But not right away-- after the investigation, after the state gets more publicity." BILL RICHARDSON, New Mexico Governor, on pardoning notorious 19th century outlaw Billy...
...imprint on post-June 30 Iraq as the hand-over nears, Bremer on Monday signed a decree forbidding Moqtada Sadr from standing for elected office in Iraq for three years, as punishment for maintaining an "illegal militia." And while the interim government has clearly stated its intention to outlaw all armed forces outside of official control, there's little reason to believe that after June 30 it will pay any heed to Bremer directives on matters such as Moqtada Sadr - particularly when they make no sense in light of its own plans to create a new political consensus among Iraqis...
...first city in the state, and thus the nation, to serve up marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Last summer also started off well for the cause of equal rights, when the Supreme Court rightly ruled in last June’s Lawrence v. Texas that states could not outlaw consensual sex between adults of the same gender...