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...girded for some of the nastiest civil unrest since the storming of the Bastille. Smokers, who represent more than one-third of all Frenchmen over age 12, cried "Egalite! Liberte!" and vowed to puff on. They should have saved their breath for the next cigarette. Despite laws that severely restrict the number of public places where French smokers are allowed to puff their Gauloises, they continue to light up with impunity virtually everywhere. Designated nonsmoking areas in offices and restaurants are routinely ignored, as are curbs in public transport stations: butts account for three of the 20 tons of garbage...
...late 1980s, many kinds of fish were verging on "commercial extinction" -- they were still around, but not in great enough numbers to supply fishing boats. In some cases, countries have agreed on fishing bans until stocks recover. Last February, for example, six nations reached a tentative pact to restrict pollack fishing in an area known as the "doughnut hole," in the international waters of the Bering...
...number of students, including Bader, said Harvard should not attempt to restrict the right to free speech guaranteed by the first Amendment...
...some students worry that the ban on an "offensive working environment" may give people opportunities to restrict groups they find personally offensive...
...movement is afoot to restrict Powerbook use. Some classes have set up segregated Powerbook sections. So far no Combination Rosa Parks/Steve Wozniak has refused to go to the back of the lecture hall...