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...that's why the directive has such powerful opponents. Professionals ranging from British midwives to French interior decorators are wary of unfair competition from foreign rivals who may not be subject to the same stringent national rules. "The major problem is that it will create unfair competition," says Agnès Thibault, secretary-general of the European Builders Confederation, which is seeking an exemption from the directive. Unions across Western Europe have raised the specter of an army of low-paid service workers without social benefits arriving from Central and Eastern Europe, undercutting prices and destroying local jobs. Some government...
...first-time abusers miss a quarter of a season. Baseball players miss 10 days, or about 5% of the season--and the legislators were incensed to learn about language that allowed a fine instead of suspension for first timers. Olympians--facing the gold standard in terms of strictness--are subject to testing at any time and barred for two years for a first offense, for life after a second. In baseball, it's five strikes and you're out. Noted Georgia Republican and House reform-committee member Lynn Westmoreland: "There are a lot of people in prison that would like...
...publish an article trying to explain why boys score lower than girls in verbal-aptitude tests? It seems the focus is always on why girls are not as good as boys at math. If boys don't perform as well as girls in a subject, it is never controversial. In fact, no one seems to care. Do we value math more than reading and writing...
...glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions to remind us where the motley 300 objects on display were unearthed, it might be easy to forget that the subject of the show is China...
...taboo lyrical topic—this is a pretty enduring one, and I don’t think it’s unfair for a band like Oasis whose self-admitted mission is to reinvent a genre for the modern era (and I mean era) to occasionally use a subject which was absolutely fundamental to that original genre’s ethos, and which determined a lot of the aural vocabulary still in play today...