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...activists were arrested before the summit began, after a police raid of their apartment turned up explosives and cans of acid. Genoese intelligence experts are monitoring an AFA website that details some protest plans for Genoa--where AFA's activities will mostly be carried out by members from Spain and France...
...official cars "green," meaning they get ultrahigh mileage running, at least in part, on some ultra-clean fuel such as hydrogen. When told in May that this would take seven years, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responded with "That's too long--make it three!" Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria and Sweden also use government purchases to stimulate production of renewables. By contrast, the U.S. has no comparable federal policies to stimulate the market for green cars. A number of states, however, have set ambitious targets for using renewables...
...TRANSFER AGREED. ZINEDINE ZIDANE, 29, French soccer hero, to Spain's Real Madrid for a reported $65 million; in Madrid. Besides his incredible performance for the national team in the 1998 World Cup, Zidane, or Zizou, has been playing with champion Italian football team Juventus since 1996. The superstar midfielder will be replaced by Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife...
...She’s very very into children,” said Treeny Ahmed ’01, who was a friend of Surti. She noted that Surti volunteered teaching children in Costa Rica during one summer while she was in college and while she studied abroad in Spain for a semester had also found time to teach children...
...options for recovery: veering left in a bid to reclaim the center ground, or pursuing a new, bolder identity. To survive, the center-right will have to do both. Distancing itself from the far right and projecting an image of inclusivity and compassion - as George W. Bush and Spain's José María Aznar have done with success - would be a start. But if conservatives intend to provide an alternative to the center-left, they will also have to try a little radicalism. And that might best come in the form of a concerted campaign to rethink, reform...