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...which, to many, smack of double standards - are not confined to Britain. Despite the gravitational pull toward uniformity provided by the binding opinions of the European Court of Human Rights, a diverse Continent does not lend itself to a common approach. "It's like trying to nail down a jellyfish," says Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, a professor of comparative law at Roma Tre University. "Each country has its own taboos. What applies to Great Britain does not apply to Greece." The old law-school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough...
...excursion to Monaco, I spent the evening watching fireworks at Cannes from the deck of a trimaran boat. Putting aside the watercolor I had been apathetically painting, I sat back and took in the omnipresent smell of sea salt and smoke and the shimmering silhouettes of overly-friendly jellyfish. Yet I could not escape the thought that my brother was no longer an undergrad like me. He was now a husband, honeymooning in Bora Bora with my new sister-in-law. The image was too heavy to bear. And so I contented myself by musing upon whether the couple would...
Several Government reports issued last week gave added credence to the Kaufman view that interest rates would stay down. The new statistics suggested that the U.S. economy is about as energetic as a beached jellyfish and has not yet started the second-half rebound that the Reagan Administration has been predicting. The Federal Reserve Board revealed that industrial production rose only .2% in July, putting it just 1.4% above its level of a year ago. The Commerce Department said that the combined total of business sales at the retail, wholesale and manufacturing levels was down 2.1% in June...
Finally, in an especially ingenious experiment, they used mice genetically engineered to carry a jellyfish gene that glows a faint fluorescent green and transplanted normal ovarian tissue into them. If the mice really did have egg-producing stem cells, some should migrate into the new tissue to generate new, green eggs--while the follicles that enveloped them, coming from normal tissue, would be white. "That's exactly what we saw," says Tilly...
...market for a kite, this is the place to shop. We spotted this flying shark under Traditional Kites in Kites for Kids--just scroll past the 12-ft. Jellyfish and 25-ft. Panel Dragon. There's also a full line of flags, banners and wind socks...