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...spokeswoman Megumi Tezuka says she's surprised by the attention the program has received in recent days, since the program was announced in a press release on Sept. 10. Why isn't the suggestion made to non-Japanese-speaking travelers? "We didn't think [telling people to use the restroom] was a very important point of the program," says Tezuka. "We didn't think there would be such big news about it." Among ANA's other green programs include recycling plastic bottles and paper cups, using lighter items in the cabin (such as plastic bottles for wine instead of glass...
...difficult to understand, all this violence. It shows a determination of the military to remain in power, and to destroy all resistance." - Bakary Fofana, a civil-society advocate, on the massacre (New York Times, Sept...
...army, but faced with unpredictable and uncontrollable events, not even the head of state can exercise discipline." - Refusing to accept responsibility for the stadium massacre (Radio France Internationale, Sept...
...Governs erratically, keeping businessmen and officials waiting days for appointments and ordering mining firms to shut down only to permit them to reopen days later. Said the only reason he did not attend the bloody Sept. 28 rally was that he could not find the keys to his pickup truck. (Read "Can a Team of (Bitter) Rivals Heal Zimbabwe...
Score it as the first serious collateral damage stemming from the ongoing detention of film director Roman Polanski. Just two weeks after his impassioned protest of Polanski's Sept. 26 arrest, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand finds himself under attack for his description of sex during trips to Thailand, which critics called sex tourism. Mitterrand, the nephew of late socialist President François Mitterrand, wrote about sex trips in a 2005 novel, detailing paying "boys" for sex. At the time the book was printed, the publisher's official description of La Mauvaise...