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...avoid those consequences, U.S. and European cooperation is essential. Ultimately, it will be the Americans who decide how and when to make a meal of Saddam. But if the Europeans are fed up with their role as dishwashers-in-chief, maybe they should set the table instead
...white paper calculates that each day 7,500 km of E.U. roads are like arteries clogged by cholesterol, at best sluggish, at worst blocked to standstill. Over the course of a year, that comes to more than 2.7 million km that you would, so to speak, kill to avoid motoring on. In 1970, drivers in today's E.U. countries boasted 62 million cars. Now there are 175 million, albeit with more and better roads to use them...
...will come first. That's where judges have to improve. Though 50% of French road deaths are attributed to speeding and 31% involve alcohol, the nation's judges are curiously indulgent to offenders. While punishment for most speeding violations is limited to fines, nearly 90% of all drunk drivers avoid prison through suspended sentences - and 40% of those convicted in fatal accidents never do time...
TAIWAN No War This Week Taiwan scrapped military exercises scheduled for Aug. 15 to help defuse tensions with China. A Taiwanese Defense Ministry official said the naval exercises had been called off to avoid misunderstandings. China was angered by President Chen Shui-bian's suggestion that, in reality, Taiwan and China were already separate countries. An unnamed "senior military source" warned in the China Daily, a state-run newspaper, that Chen might risk invasion if he pressed ahead with a referendum on Taiwan's independence. China regards the island as a rebel province...
...mostly converses in a language I don’t understand—isn’t much fun. Any thoughts of inviting people over or lounging around the apartment on weekends disappeared when we learned we’d have an unexpected guest. I now try to avoid being in my own “home” as much as possible...