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...Sony estimates that revenues in Asia for the Japanese music industry could rise by 40%, or nearly $40 million. Probable losers: Korea's backward erotic-film industry, which may not be able to match Japan's exotic blue videos. South Koreans are about to taste all sorts of formerly forbidden fruits...
...bear the legend attention bureaucrats!!! entry forbidden. Mayor Petr Pávek imposed the ban Sept. 12 after he found his staff of three spending as much as 80% of their working hours complying with countless (and he says "nonsensical") requests for information from the Czech Statistical Office and other state bureaus. "It drains our resources and doesn't leave enough time for work in the community," he says. In addition to the ban, he plans to charge an hourly rate for compliance with requests that he deems nonessential to the functioning of his community. Pávek's initiative...
...Saudis making? Education Minister Mohammed al-Rasheed told TIME that the government had scratched the entire fifth chapter of a 10th-grade text that described how Muslims and non-believers were historical enemies. An excerpt detailing "ways to show hatred to the infidel" charges that "it is forbidden to show happiness during the holidays of the infidels." The minister noted that three Koranic messages encouraging tolerance would be included in Saudi texts. One of them says, "Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for your faith nor to drive you out of your homes, from...
...historically typical hostility toward Christians and Jews. But he was less focused on infidels than he was inward-looking and obsessed with orthodoxy: he wrote that jihad should be postponed until the Islamic house was in order. He was more combative regarding his brethren. Although Muslims are forbidden to wage holy war against one another, Khaled Abou El Fadl, an expert in Islamic law at Yale University, says Wahhabis "argued that Muslims guilty of [unorthodoxy] could and should be killed...
...Lester Grinspoon is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Marijuana Reconsidered and a co-author of Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine. He currently manages the website www.marijuana-uses.com...