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...Modified Policy EUROPEAN UNION The European Commission gave its first approval to genetically modified seeds. The 17 strains of maize seed, engineered by U.S. biotech firm Monsanto to resist certain insects, can now be grown anywhere in the E.U. Environmental groups fear cross-contamination of conventional crops. Pay Up POLAND Parliament unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the government seek reparations from Germany for the destruction and losses suffered by Poland as a result of "German aggression, occupation and genocide" during World War II. The move was seen as a response to pressure by the Prussian Claims Society, a group...
...power seems to be swinging back to the hotels," Felton says. So maybe this recovery will be back for an extended stay. The Price of Membership Call it the E.U. diet: soaring food prices in Poland since it joined the Union on May 1 have forced some people to alter their menus. Beef prices shot up by 21.7% in the second quarter, thanks to demand for cheap Polish meat in other E.U. states. Carb lovers suffered, too: rice prices rose 27.7% after Poland implemented E.U. tariffs on imports from countries such as Vietnam. Food and oil have driven overall inflation...
Security was tight at Madison Square Garden—so tight that employees at concession stands on Tuesday night refused to sell bottles of Poland Spring water with caps on them...
...sweltering day in New York City, and five teenage boys are selling bottles of Poland Spring water to drivers stopping at a traffic light in Harlem. Business is slow, so the boys--camped out on lawn chairs on the sidewalk--start bantering about fashion. "L-E T-I-G-R-E. Le Tigre!" shouts one of the young entrepreneurs to another as the rest of them look on in disbelief. "Don't you know what...
DIED. CZESLAW MILOSZ, 93, Polish poet and essayist whose politically charged writing in the shadow of communism earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980; in Krakow, Poland. Born in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, he spent World War II writing for the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...