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Level -> From the news desk.... (5/15/2007 1:28:55 PM)
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Muslims and the veil
"IS THIS all because of me?" At once bemused and indignant, the potential first lady of Turkey demands that her compatriots stop judging her, and her spouse, on the basis of her appearance. “My scarf covers my head, not my brain,” insists Hayrunisa Gul, whose husband Abdullah is foreign minister and aspires to be president.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9149827
How to cool the world
A new report on the state of the planet offers some grounds for optimism
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body set up under the auspices of the United Nations to produce a global consensus on the science and economics of climate change, reports once every six years. On May 4th, it published the third tranche of its fourth report. The first two tranches, on the science of climate change and its impact around the world, made for depressing reading. Climate change was getting worse, mankind was responsible, and most regions—especially the poorer bits of the world—were going to suffer. The third tranche, by contrast, was upbeat. Climate change may threaten mankind, but mankind has a good chance of averting it—if it puts its mind to it.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9153569
International socialism
The people's flag is palest pink
A FEW days before the French presidential election, Ségolène Royal received a rousing endorsement from her comrades in the pan-European left, delivered in the emotive terms that a socialist of the 1930s might have used to rally support for his cause in the Spanish civil war.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9155411
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