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...beyond the bottom line, the internecine brouhaha is also a fight over the best way to protect a beloved character who has attained cultural icon status in France - not least because Asterix endearingly personifies countless French traits that test outsiders' patience. What's at stake is the very appeal of the brainy but diminutive Asterix, super-sized Obélix, and canine chum Dogmatix (Idéfix in the original French...
...parents thought was a cold. He woke up with projectile vomiting and before long began taking short, shallow breaths. After several hours, he started to turn gray, and Melton and his wife Gail brought the baby to the emergency room. For the rest of that afternoon, doctors performed test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong. "It was a horrific day," says Melton. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...which operates independently of the U.N., was created to oversee large-scale human-rights violations--like those allegedly orchestrated by Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, the court's first defendant. The trial of Lubanga for training child-soldiers during the region's 2002-03 ethnic conflict is also the first test of an international law allowing victims--like the 93 people expected to testify against him--to play a direct role in court. The ICC has 108 member countries. That does not include the U.S., which never ratified the treaty establishing the court...
...that it diverts too many crops from too many mouths. India has set aside 100 million acres for jatropha and expects the oil to account for 20% of its diesel consumption by 2011. Australia, China, Brazil and Kenya have also embraced it. In December, a Boeing 747 was successfully test-flown by Air New Zealand using a 50-50 blend of jatropha and aviation fuel. (Watch TIME's video about biofuel tree farmers in action...
...elections are extreme even by the standards of a war-battered country all too familiar with checkpoints, mazes of blast walls and periodic road closures. Iraqi authorities are orchestrating what amounts to a nationwide lockdown for the coming vote, which many Iraqi and U.S. officials view as a key test of both the country's security forces and the durability of the reduced levels of violence in Iraq. On election day, Iraq plans to seal its borders, close Baghdad International Airport and ban all but specially licensed vehicles from moving in downtown areas across the country...