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...cute and fluffy creature cause so much trouble? On Tuesday, the day before the summit, the European Parliament passed a vote in Strasbourg to ban imports of seal products into the European Union - mainly from Canada. MEPs voted by a massive 550 to 49 to ban seal products - from soft pelts to Omega-3 health supplements made from seal oil - in time for the next commercial seal hunt season, in Spring 2010. (See pictures of life beneath Antarctic...
...effectiveness - and will reward it at the polls. That was the powerful lesson of local elections held last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft on terror," would win. Instead, young voters gave the ruling Congress Party credit for the Delhi Metro, a new mass-transit system, and re-elected Sheila Dikshit, the city's 71-year-old chief minister. "Age was not the criteria," Deshmukh says. The calculation was, he explains, much simpler...
...said of the nearly 300 fasts he's staged. But for desperate people like Saberi, it's much more than that. As Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History, wrote, "What else can the powerless, the weak and disenfranchised offer up to the world but their own soft bodies...
...pocket, il taschino, and Ter Meulen, thimble on finger, is finishing off the neatly lined slit in the square scrap of French-vanilla gabardine during a weeklong stint learning Old World tailoring techniques. "You have to stitch really straight," the 23-year-old student says after ironing down the soft piece of fabric. "It's not to be rushed...
...feel beautiful.” On top of changes to the script, the number of characters has been reduced and lines have been shifted from one character to another. For example, the roles of Gertrude and Ophelia have been greatly expanded. “They’re less soft,” Vartikar says. “More hard, easier to read, more surreal, raw.” Vartikar’s changes to the text were informed by the philosophies of Heiner Müller and James Joyce. “Some scholars would definitely disagree...