international news
Oct. 24th, 2004 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbThere's a big article about challenges faced by newly free schools in Africa. People's desire to learn is palpable, and not easily fulfilled.
Turkey has revised pretty much its entire legal code in order to fit in with the European Union. (For example, women now have equal rights in marriage.) It turns out that revamping a legal system is hard.
Muslim integration in Spain.
Every country in the UN wants to ban human cloning for reproduction, but they can't sign a treaty because the US and some other nations want it to ban cloning for stem cell research too.
The Marines in Ramadi:
Turkey has revised pretty much its entire legal code in order to fit in with the European Union. (For example, women now have equal rights in marriage.) It turns out that revamping a legal system is hard.
Muslim integration in Spain.
Every country in the UN wants to ban human cloning for reproduction, but they can't sign a treaty because the US and some other nations want it to ban cloning for stem cell research too.
The Marines in Ramadi:
"They don't have a clue what's going on here," said Cpl. Patrick Hansen, 24, of Tewksbury, Mass. "The Iraq story will come in fourth on the TV news, behind Betsy the Cow having a first-prize calf at the county fair. Then it'll go back to Bob the weatherman."Also, the Dutch in Samawa.
"All I heard back home was, 'Once we get Osama, this whole thing will be over,' " he said. "It's like the Iraqis here saying, 'Once we get rid of Saddam, it'll be over.' Well, right now, it's far from over."
