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Citing new evidence of health risks, Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler last week declared a moratorium on silicone implants. He urged manufacturers to halt marketing the devices and surgeons to stop inserting them in women. In Spain and Australia health officials quickly followed suit; Canada, Britain and France are reviewing their policies. The decision stunned millions of women worldwide. "They are angry, frustrated and concerned," said Dr. Norman Cole, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. "They want to know what is going...
...considerably higher than in the U.S. That is still the case in Britain, Italy and France, where the percentage of jobless is well above the current 7.1% in the U.S. Some of the smaller countries have been hit even harder: 19% are out of work in Ireland, 15% in Spain and 11% in Belgium. Such high rates would produce a political earthquake in the U.S., but Europeans are better cushioned by more generous unemployment benefits...
...this does little to quell the unease of Arab, African and European onlookers. Neighboring Tunisia and Morocco feel particularly threatened by the Islamic vote. Across the Mediterranean, Spain, Italy and France are girding for waves of fleeing Algerians to wash up on their shores. And throughout the Arab world, there are fears that such fundamentalist successes will inspire Islamic radicals at home...
...think you could live without the suspense of whether or not flag-waver Charles Barkley, who said he only wanted to go to the Olympics so he could take his mom to Spain, will show up for his preliminary basketball games...
...policies. France could point to a firm timetable for establishing a single currency for the European Community's other 11 members. Germany, among the most Euro-minded of the Community states, could hail the birth of a "European union." And the most impoverished brethren in the group -- Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal -- had won the promise of money transfers from the rich states to the poor...