Taken to Court for Fixing Clock 2007-12-20
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It is one of Paris’s most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the city for more than two centuries.
But it is unlikely that the Panthéon, or any other building in France’s capital, will have played host to a more bizarre sequence of events than those revealed in a court last week. (more…)
Accident Hot Spot is “Safety Town” 2007-12-18
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Slough in Berkshire, which was one of the first to model itself as a ’safety town’ and which is ringed by traffic lights and speed cameras, topped a most-accident table compiled by Endsleigh Insurance Services.
As the most dangerous place in the UK, the Berkshire town had an accident rate 35.7 per cent above the national average in 2007, Endsleigh said. (more…)
Green Light for Red Light Clean Up 2007-12-18
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The city of Amsterdam announced plans on Monday to clean up its infamous ‘red light’ district to fight human trafficking, money laundering, and drug abuse — and replace prostitutes’ windows with upmarket boutiques.
Amsterdam’s Mayor Mr.Job Cohen told a news conference he wanted to (more…)
Get Sexy, Get Ahead 2007-12-09
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According to ‘Prude: How The Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls’ — a new book by The Managing Editor of ‘The Harvard Law Review’, Ms.Carol Platt Liebau — while women have fought for decades to be treated as men’s equals, today’s girls are being told through popular culture that female empowerment simply comes from being ’sexy’. This is undermining girls’ sense of worth in their most vulnerable, formative years and glorifying destructive behaviour. (more…)
