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European workers will take to the streets against any attempt to reweave their safety net. Who can blame them? In Spain, for instance, laid-off workers are entitled to 45 days' pay for each year of service. Two weeks is typical for the U.S. But the price of such protection is stagnation. Firing workers, even for cause, is so pricey that employers are reluctant to hire them in the first place. So Spain pays for its kindness with a jobless rate of more than 20%, Europe's highest. Italy, although more entrepreneurial than Spain, has similar laws and an unemployment...
DATE/VOTERS SPAIN, March 3; 34 million...
CANDIDATES Felipe Gonzalez, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Popular Party leader OUTLOOK After 13 years of Socialist rule, the Popular Party appears likely to lead Spain to its first rightward turn since dictator Francisco Franco's death...
...caulking mallet falls silent while I listen to that whispering, hearing the view from Paris about how the phrase "Native American" subverts United States immigrant assimilation, the opinion from India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from Spain about American feminists as unable to go top-free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third of present-day Somalia...
...round-the-clock, planet-spanning online party, a feel-good cyberfest celebrating the paradigm-shifting possibilities of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Smolan, the photographer and entrepreneur behind the hugely successful Day in the Life series of photo books that document everyday life in Spain, Japan, Australia, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., hoped to do the same for the growing world of interconnected computers...