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Helping terminally ill people pass away without breaking the law is only possible in the American Oregon, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. But, as Vremya Novostey notes, the most popular…
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Besides the Hollywood-celebrated Las Vegas and Atlantic City, there are many other places where Americans happily lighten their pockets by $100 billion a year. Itogi decided to figure out where and…
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An interagency commission of the French government for the fight against drugs and drug addiction published a report, from which it follows that 1.2 million residents of the country regularly smoke…
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One of the problems that have already been classified as "eternal" is the tendency of schoolchildren and students around the world to skip classes. It is especially relevant in the spring, when good…
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Another government report on poverty in Germany, presented recently by Federal Minister of Labor Olaf Scholz, turned out to be no more optimistic than the previous one. As Russkaya Germaniya writes…
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In Turkey, a law banning smoking in public places has come into force. The law, adopted by the country's parliament in January, prohibits smoking in government institutions, shopping malls, schools…
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The Social Security Administration of the USA published the ranking of the most common names among newborns for 2007. Among female names, Emily has been the leader for the twelfth consecutive year…
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From June 1, 2008, drinking alcoholic beverages will be banned on London public transport – the metro, trams, buses, and light rail. This became the first administrative innovation of the newly…
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The list of the 25 most polluted cities in the world, compiled by Forbs magazine, includes 16 towns in African countries.
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In the Old World, a new sexual revolution is quietly and imperceptibly beginning, one that older people had long warned about with apprehension. Recently, for instance, the authorities of Amsterdam…
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But why April? What did this month do wrong? The answer appeared in 1983, when the Associated Press announced a sensation: the origin of this mysterious holiday had finally been found. Joseph Boskin…
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Over Stockholm, Helsinki, and Copenhagen, the drawn-out calls of muezzins resound; the courts of Northern European cities, overshadowed by green banners, conduct cases according to Sharia law; and…