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...easy on the throttle, because ascending slowly will help you acclimatize to the thinner air; and, for safety's sake, consider hiring a local guide who knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist complete, all you need to do is choose your summit. Here are four of our regional favorites: Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java...
...Commissioner responsible for the internal market, told the European Parliament that the Services Directive in its current form "has not a snowball's chance in hell" of being approved by governments and the Parliament. E.U. heads of government are expected to discuss the issue at this week's summit in Brussels, but prospects for a quick fix are slight...
...that 26,000 German butchers had lost their jobs when Polish subcontractors imported East Europeans to work for a fraction of German butchers' wages. The numbers may have been exaggerated, but the issue came up again last week, just before Schröder met political opponents at a "jobs summit" in Berlin. "We cannot allow service freedom if this leads to social dumping, and if it disregards the protection standards of employees," Schröder thundered...
...control is popping up high on the priority list of a growing number of cities around the world fed up with the gunk on their sidewalks. In London, representatives from Belfast, Cardiff and other British cities gathered last month for a summit on gum pollution. London's Oxford Street alone is smeared with some 300,000 bits of used gum; chew-goo cleanup costs Britain an estimated $290 million a year. A new bill in Parliament would fine gum droppers...
...will be gone. Meanwhile, a growing economy is gobbling up power - 2.5% more of it each year - and making the national grid feel its age. Power lines into Auckland, where almost one-third of New Zealanders now live, can barely handle peak loads. At a national electricity summit two weeks ago, industry leaders warned that if action isn't taken soon, supplies could run short or the grid give way within five years. "We don't have much reserve margin," says Alex Sundakov, of energy consultancy Castalia. "We are flying by the seat of our pants, really...