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...about other addicts? Will we soon be giving cocaine to cocaine addicts? Alcohol to alcoholics?" asks Mary Brett, vice president of the nonprofit group Europe Against Drugs. "This perpetuates addicts' maintenance on the drug when the goal should always be abstinence." (Read "Swiss Heroin Program Is Put to a Vote...
...summit ended a whirlwind week for climate news that began on Sept. 22 with a high-level U.N. summit on warming. Before "Climate Week" began, the U.S. Senate made intimations that it would not likely vote on a carbon cap-and-trade bill before the year was up, dimming the chances for a global deal at Copenhagen. But, then, China pledged to improve energy efficiency, while progress was made toward crafting a way to use global carbon markets to slow tropical deforestation. That gave environmentalists some hope. "Overall, I still feel better than I did a week ago," said Carstensen...
...Democrats than they were with the Social Democrats - a change that could push Germany closer to the French line on nuclear power and relations with Russia. But what isn't yet known is how warmly the Free Democrats will embrace closer cooperation with France. They won 14.6% of the vote, a record result for the party, and their leader, Guido Westerwelle, is likely to become the next Foreign Minister. His campaign focused on how to revive Germany's economy, and he was vague about broader European issues. In an interview with TIME before the election, Westerwelle didn't refer directly...
...Afghanistan's election commission, overseen by a U.N. watchdog body, has spent more than a month counting votes from the Aug. 20 election, trying to weed out the fraudulent ballots that may account for as much as 20% of the 5.5 million votes cast. When these tainted ballots are discounted, the front-runner and incumbent, President Hamid Karzai, may yet emerge as the first-round winner, even though his loyalists were the most brazen vote riggers. But if his tally falls below 50%, Karzai might be forced into a runoff against his former Foreign Minister, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. U.N. officials...
...sector, we were quite successful. Economic issues have never contributed to instability in Iran and never will. The minister of economy of the ninth government, which is the previous four years, was actually selected for the 10th government, the current government as well, and he received a very high vote of confidence by the parliament. There was in fact no vote against him even though the government itself, my administration, has some serious opponents with respect to other issues. The foundations of Iran's economy are in fact very solid. Not to forget that precisely for that matter...