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...Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink." If you eat a pungent lunch, says Jenkins, "you might stink...
...serial kidnapper, Philip Yeo looks harmless enough. But to hear some people tell it, he's a dangerous man. Over the past six years, Yeo has been roaming the world, trailing talented scientists in Washington; San Diego; Palo Alto, Calif.; Edinburgh and elsewhere, and spiriting them back to his home country of Singapore. Like any proud collector, Yeo never tires of ticking off his most prized trophies: former National Cancer Institute star Edison Liu, American husband-and-wife team Nancy Jenkins and Neal Copeland, British cancer researcher David Lane. "I'm a people snatcher," he says unashamedly...
...DIED. Philip Rieff, 83, conservative sociologist and cultural theorist at the University of Pennsylvania best known for a trio of books on the destructive impact of Sigmund Freud; in Philadelphia. In January, Rieff published his last book, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks--in which he cites legal abortion, the gay-rights movement and pop music as examples of cultural decline--and dedicated it to the memory of his first wife, essayist Susan Sontag...
...system, however, has failed to impress either its critics or its supporters. Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester for six years until 2001, says the shield is "a scarecrow defense" of unproven value. Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation, a long-time backer, bemoans what he sees as Administration foot-dragging. "They are so scared of test failures," he says, "they're not moving forward as fast as they...
Sarah Jessica Parker. Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was a surprise to see name actors in this movie. We just asked them. We'll pick you up. A hot lunch. It's two or three hours...