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At least four-fifths of the 76-member pontifical commission on birth control favors a change in the Roman Catholic Church's traditional prohibition against mechanical and chemical methods of birth control. Ending three years of study on the question, the commission last week presented its findings to Pope Paul VI
Over the past six years, The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled more than 180 million pieces of metal jewelry that contained dangerous levels of lead, and in August 2009 it lowered the acceptable amount of lead in children’s jewelry to 300 parts per million . But the progress in regulating lead appears to have propelled manufacturers to use another toxic metal, cadmium
New evidence of Soviet spyingIt read like a chapter of seabed science fiction, but last week Swedes were taking very seriously indeed a report by their government charging the Soviet Union with a spectacular underwater spy effort off the Swedish coast.
One of the most familiar of all trade names was booked for a major operation last week. The Federal Trade Commission told the manufacturers of Carter's Little Liver Pills to cut the word “liver” out of the product name
As questions swirled around its accounting practices, Tyco International, an industrial and services conglomerate with $36 billion in annual revenues–and a beaten-down stock price–said last week it would split into four companies in a bid to “unlock tens of billions of dollars of shareholder value.” The company’s combative CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, predicted the breakup would add 50% to the stock price. Going him one better, Don MacDougall of J.P.
Last week, the European Commission — which is investigating whether Google’s search engine violates European antitrust law — received a formal letter of complaint from an interested party. The complainant charged Google with “a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative.” It accused the company of hurting consumers by refusing to open up services such as YouTube to other search engines, said that its practices were “disconcerting” and “troubling,” and called on European officials to step in and clamp down.
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. dollar has enjoyed a unique and powerful position in international trade.
The logic seems pretty simple: if you eliminate gym class, school kids will get fatter.
Israel is denying Palestinians access to adequate water supplies by controlling shared water resources, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday. He said that Israeli consumption of water from the mountain aquifer had gone down in absolute terms from 1967 to today, despite the fact that Israel’s population had more than doubled in that time to its current level of approximately 7 million people
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has successfully brought dozens of war criminals to justice, but a “truth commission” is still necessary if the region’s ethnic factions are ever to achieve lasting reconciliation, according to a former legal adviser to the court.