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...plans that promise retirees a fixed benefit: in the private sector, 30% of such plans have closed to new entrants. (Newer schemes are much less certain, and place all the risk with the employee rather than the employer: what workers take out at retirement depends on how their investments perform.) Experts remain unconvinced that such moves will solve long-term problems. "That solution is a very slow burn," says Raj Mody of U.K. actuaries Hewitt, Bacon & Woodrow. "All you're doing is addressing past promises." Much of the current furor over U.K. pensions grew out of a recently introduced accounting...
...fueled by fears, widespread in Slovakia, of Roma overpopulation, as well as the belief of many Slovak doctors that repeat deliveries via caesarean section can be dangerous - hence the recommended sterilization after two or three such deliveries. Indeed, the CRR finds that medical practitioners "appeared to unnecessarily and irresponsibly perform C-sections on Romany women at least in part as a pretext for sterilizing them." The CRR also reports "systematic and glaring racial discrimination" in maternity wards and gynecology departments, Roma women often being prohibited from using even the same toilets and dining facilities as other patients...
...with brutal physical punishment or death. Once the newly-enslaved blacks arrive in the North, they are forced to convert to Islam and set to work. Boys are made to tend animals while women and girls are used as domestic workers and concubines. Slaves who fail to perform their tasks to their masters’ satisfaction are often beaten or mutilated, many having their fingers chopped off one at a time...
...member cast will perform the 40 times in a run that takes them from Cambridge to New York and Bermuda...
...would appear that singer BOBBY BROWN fails to grasp some of the finer points of the legal system. When a judge forbids you to leave the state of Georgia, it is generally not a good idea to skip town. It is a still worse idea to perform on a nationally televised awards show being broadcast from Los Angeles. In November Brown, the husband of Whitney Houston, was ordered to stay in Georgia pending his trial for a 1996 drunken-driving charge in Atlanta. But last week he appeared onstage at the American Music Awards with rapper Ja Rule singing...