Word: unionizers
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...years ago it would have taken a police agency months of shoe leather and paper hunting to assemble the kind of information that is available on a cell phone's internal memory and which can be extracted by a deep probe. Says Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union technology and liberty program: "They contain a great amount of information that essentially is a subjective picture of our habits, our friends, our interests and activities, and now some even have location tracking...
...boycott was proposed earlier this summer by University and College Union, which represents 120,000 British professors and other academics, as a means to protest the Jewish state's human rights record. The proposal will be voted on by the union's membership in the coming months...
...Faust did not add her name to the full-page ad, continuing Harvard's tradition of not signing onto petitions, but she had previously written a letter—on July 2, her second day in the office—to the University and College Union voicing her "strong opposition to this measure...
...Once the exclusive preserve of the extremely wealthy, caviar's recent growing appeal has come at the price of dwindling fish stocks. Although the trade is supposed to be tightly regulated by quotas, the messy breakup of the Soviet Union led to a flourishing black market that has proved difficult to suppress. According to the World Wildlife Fund, many sturgeon species are now being pushed to the brink of extinction. Although the British government recently introduced tough new labeling requirements for all caviar sold in the U.K., so far caviar smuggling has passed with little sanction. EU countries imported...
...Bush and Sarkozy show that their meeting "was much ado about nothing". Despite the warm glow produced by a friendly cookout, Moïsi says the encounter won't have changed the differences between the two sides on such key issues as Iran, Iraq, Turkish membership to the European Union, global warming, or regulation of the economy. Sarkozy may be talking the talk more like Tony Blair, but when it comes to walking the walk, he'll look a lot more like Chirac...