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...PETE ROSE On billboards and bus benches, Pony is campaigning for the rehabilitation of the former Cincinnati Red, who was barred from baseball amid accusations that he gambled on games. In this ad Rose reminds fans of his 4,256 hits, still a major league record...
...army said it was trying to prevent deaths by having M'khisan warn any civilians who might have been inside. But the Israeli human-rights group B'tselem said he was used as a shield. GERMANY Inundated Cities As floodwaters receded in Austria and the Czech Republic, they rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes in the southeastern German city of Dresden. While emergency services concentrated on evacuating residents from the danger zone, authorities also worked furiously to minimize damage at the city's historic Semper Opera House...
...regulated by dams. In contrast, the Danube used to be surrounded by 26,000 sq km of meadows that acted as a buffer for flooding waters. Now only 6,000 sq km of meadows remain, the rest having been turned into farmland or housing developments. Last week the Danube rose 6 m above its normal levels in some places. With about half of Europe's population already living along rivers, it's doubtful that large tracts will be restored to grassland. More and better river management may be the only option. But Tockner says "those measures give people a false...
...exam in the three countries, instead giving paper-based tests just twice a year. Officials became suspicious after colleges complained that incoming students' impressive scores were sometimes belied by their lousy English. It's unclear how many were involved, but in China alone the average verbal score rose by more than 14% this year compared with last year, a gain officials say can only be explained by mass cheating. Officials can't tell who broke the rules, so all individual scores will stand. Who says cheaters never prosper...
...drinking northern neighbors. Last year, Britain accounted for nearly a quarter of France's exports. But although the British wine market has been expanding regularly for the past decade, France's share of it shrank from 33% in 1995 to 26% last year. Meanwhile, the New World's share rose from 15% to 37%, more than half of it from Australia. The prospect of being marginalized in one of the world's few growth markets has convinced the French that they need a shake...