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...Marseilles. He argues that millennia of human activity have favored the growth of pine forests, which are prone to fires, over the hardwoods that originally grew in the region. Now with more people than ever along the Med, municipal officials still obdurately refuse to reverse course. "Instead of planting the oak and ash, mayors plant quick-growing pines so they can point to the new forest before their terms run out," Thinon says. "Then we get more fires." France passed a law in 1995 demanding that local authorities take strict fire-prevention measures, but in the hardest-hit Var region...
...Pyongyang claims to have converted enough plutonium from spent nuclear fuel rods for at least five or six bombs. The U.S. and South Korea say the North has conducted recent tests to perfect high-explosive detonators used to trigger a nuclear explosion. Ongoing work at the North's nuclear plant at Yongbyon is well known. But over the weekend, the New York Times reported that American and Asian officials say there is strong evidence that the North has built a second, secret plant for producing weapons-grade plutonium. If left unchecked, Pyongyang could test a nuclear weapon...
Since we reported on jetmaker Embraer in the May issue of TIME Global Business, the Brazilian up-and-comer has garnered fresh attention. Embraer recently announced that it would open a plant in Jacksonville, Fla., and start pursuing U.S. defense and homeland-security contracts. (Embraer already sells a line of surveillance aircraft to the governments of Brazil, Greece and Mexico.) Then more news: discount carrier JetBlue Airways ordered 100 Embraer regional jets for $3 billion. The deal was especially notable because JetBlue had earlier espoused the maintenance and training efficiencies of using only one type of plane--one made...
...COLOMBIA Soft Drink, Hard Times Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions...
Smart shops trace their origins to Amsterdam, where in the early 1990s people began using such substances as ginkgo, a plant extract, to improve cognitive functions and help stay alert for work and study. Those pills merged with "eco-drugs" into the broader category of smart drugs that are making their way into markets across Europe. Dutch wholesaler Ananda Schouten says France has the most restrictive laws, but looser rules in Germany and Britain have spawned dozens of full-fledged smart shops in those countries. Schouten claims to take a missionary view of his business. "I think what...