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...decades, but some of its biggest opponents are to be found in Scandinavia, where environmental concerns are taken especially seriously. Sweden has voted to get out of nuclear energy altogether, and in Finland a 1993 application by utility TVO to build a new nuclear plant was overwhelmingly rejected by parliament. But on a balmy night this September, some 300 executives from the world of energy and politics clambered into a huge hole in the Finnish town of Olkiluoto to watch a laser lightshow as the climax of a highly unusual celebration: the groundbreaking for the first nuclear plant...
...PASSED. JAPAN'S POSTAL-REFORM BILLS, by a vote of 134 to 100, in the Upper House of parliament; in Tokyo. The vote ensures the enactment of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plan to privatize the three functions of Japan's $3 trillion postal system, including the world's largest savings bank, by 2017. A cornerstone of Koizumi's reform agenda, the bills were voted down by the Upper House in August, causing the Prime Minister to call snap elections for the Lower House aimed at silencing critics of the plan?even those in his own party. (The Lower House...
...National Dialogue Council, which includes many former Ba'athists. The move by the Islamic Party is a "betrayal" of all the Sunnis, he said, and hinted that the Dialogue Council would consider excluding them from its fractious coalition of Sunni Arabs when they run for the permanent parliament in December...
...only jump. And just when it felt never-ending, the band rushed off stage, begging an encore and teasing the masses. Not a minute later, to the thundering of a thousand palms, they rushed back on with Dr. Dog (the opening artist, who looked like Kid Rock as a Parliament backup dancer) in tow.With the instruments finally almost outnumbered, together, the musicians launched into “Do the Whirlwind.” Rising a meter from the ground, The shoes (now warm and soft and a little more worn from the dance) wiggled free from the limits...
...less powerful than Abu Samhadana. The Palestinian Authority's 30,000 police and soldiers in the Gaza Strip say they lack the capacity to disarm such groups. In an open show of their frustration, 50 police officers fired guns in the air and interrupted a meeting of the Palestinian parliament in Gaza City last week to plead for more firepower. Some Palestinians fear that Gaza is descending into violent anarchy. "It's a Mafia situation," says Saeb al-Ajez, who resigned as chief of Palestinian police in February to protest the lawlessness. "Law is cast aside. Everyone wants to show...