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...Surely the first SARS outbreak should have taught the Chinese to modify their eating habits. Severe penalties should be imposed on restaurants still serving civet. The thought of thousands of these pretty creatures being slaughtered is extremely distressing. Can't we call upon organizations concerned with animal welfare to request a release into the wild of civets and the complete ban on their capture and use as food? The survival of mankind depends on the intelligent modification of human behavior, which is the only solution to reducing aids and SARS. Elizabeth Davies Manila...
Last November Campbell and his colleagues got their answer. The Labor Department rejected their request, saying "the performance of services does not constitute production of an article," as required by law. In short, if you work in a factory and lose your job to imports, you get help. If you are in a service industry and your job is moved abroad, you don't qualify. They lost the game...
...adapts itself to this world with a mix of personality interviews (Donald Trump, Reba McEntire), in-studio performances (Missy Elliott, Enrique Iglesias) and celeb gossip. It's like Total Request Live but older, or Entertainment Tonight but with more screaming fans. Granted, nobody asked for either one, and On-Air was shaky in its first week. Seacrest may be better suited to the more controlled Idol than to unpredictable live variety. When Richie brought a pair of goats with her to plug her rural reality show, one of the beasts did what well-fed goats do, all over the stage...
This Feb. 14, V won't stand for just valentine at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Mass. The local school board and superintendent last month approved a student request to stage The Vagina Monologues the night before Valentine's Day as part of a national campaign to call attention to violence against women. The theater piece, written by Eve Ensler, has played off-Broadway and in all-star benefits around the country and the world on Valentine's Day for the past six years. But this is believed to be the first sanctioned high school performance of the play...
...that a parent should not be prosecuted for the death of an infant unless all the experts involved ruled out natural causes. Demanding Democracy iran Hard-line clerics reinstated more than 300 of the thousands of candidates they had disqualified from February's parliamentary elections, in response to a request by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei for them to reconsider their ban. However, more than 70 senior civil servants threatened to resign if all the disqualifications were not overturned; many members of the Cabinet and six vice presidents had already tendered their resignations, but President Mohammed Khatami refused to accept...