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In July, the National Assembly passed an amendment that would eliminate the need for the Architectes des Bâtiments de France (ABF), a specialized corps of state architects, to approve new construction projects in France's 600 protected heritage zones. Former Culture Minister Jack Lang decried the vote, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is France Doing Enough to Save Its Historic Buildings? | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Americans observed daylight saving, but they didn't like it. In 1972, after much protest, President Richard Nixon signed the so-called Indiana amendment, which allowed states straddling time-zone boundaries to exempt only part of themselves from daylight saving. The result left part of Indiana in Central Time, part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do Countries Determine Their Time Zones? | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Cutting in Colorado: The Centennial State says it will reduce its hourly minimum wage by 4¢ next year, to $7.24, becoming the first to lower its rate since the U.S. passed a minimum-wage law in 1938. Officials say a 2006 amendment to Colorado's constitution--in which voters opted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

UC Vice President Kia J. McLeod ’10 proposed an amendment that would require one member of the UC Finance Committee to sit in on Board meetings as a non-voting member in order to give FiCom a glimpse of the “bigger picture�...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC To Approve New Clubs | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

This recent amendment passed on the heels of an unsuccessful one proposed by Mallika Khandelwal ’11, chair of the Student Initiatives Committee, that would have replaced one SRC member on the Board with a voting member of the FiCom.

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC To Approve New Clubs | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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