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TABLE-Croatia June net wages fall 0.5 pct y/y ZAGREB, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The State Statistics Bureau issued the following details on Monday: REAL NET WAGES...............JUNE........MAY........JUNE 00 Month-on-month change (pct)....-3.0......2.0.......-1.8 Year-on-year (pct).............-0.5.......0.7...... 2.5 04:57 09-10-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited.

Induced Abortion Revised 2/2000 INCIDENCE OF ABORTION 49% of pregnancies among American women are unintended; 1/2 of these are terminated by abortion. In 1997, 1.33 million abortions took place, down from an estimated 1.61 million in 1990. From 1973 through 1997, more than 35 million legal abortions occurred. Each year, 2 out of every 100 women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion and 55% have had a previous birth. An estimated 43% of women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. Each year, ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Michelin North America Inc. is cutting 2,000 jobs, or about 7 percent of its work force, citing a downturn in tire markets and the need to increase its long-term competitiveness. The company hopes to complete much of the cuts through normal attrition and voluntary severance programs, Michelin said in a statement. All 23 of Michelin's plants in North America will be affected, spokeswoman Nancy Banks said. The company has 26,500 employees, Banks said. The jobs cuts had been expected for months after Michelin North America announced this spring ...

  QUESTION TO THE MEDIA is the Bill of Rights "anti-government" too? Dorothy Anne Seese 09.10.01 This is a general question to those reporters and editorialists who love to toss around the phrase "anti-government" when citizens or citizens groups challenge their individual, property or other rights when a government agency takes action. The Bill of Rights states what powers and rights belong to the people, upon which the government may not trespass. Does that make the Bill of Rights "anti-government?" If not, why not? Why is it that individuals and groups who assert their rights under the Bill of ...

On Thread I, I posted this cover of Newsweak - currently on newsstands: An excerpt from the article: SO ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON, December 12, Gore decided to write an Op-Ed for The New York Times, on the assumption the Court would rule in his favor. “As I write this,” the piece began, “I do not know what the Supreme Court will decide.” Gore repeated the themes of the five-week post-election struggle: count all the votes “so that the will of the people” was honored; work “for the agenda that Senator [Joe] Lieberman and I put forward in the campaign,” which ...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "word for the day." Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the "word of the day" in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... vitiate \VISH-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:Listen Herevitiable (vsh--bl); adjectivevitiation; nounvitiator; nounvitiatedvitiating 1. To make faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing.2. To corrupt morally.3. To debase in ...

Fifty-six years after he was shot and strung upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, Benito Mussolini is enjoying a revival as Italy's shame about the dictator yields to fascination. In the dying days of the second world war he tried to flee his countrymen's wrath disguised as a German soldier but today they cannot get enough of Il Duce. For some critics the surge of interest sails too close to rehabilitation: honour guards at the tomb, his picture adorning products, his former homes turned into hotels and his apologists in the government. Historians say Italy's policy of covering up ...

Norway vote seen dealing blow to ruling socialists OSLO, Sept 10 (AFP) - Norwegians angry at high taxes and deteriorating public services voted on Monday in a general election expected to deal an historic rebuke to the ruling socialists despite unprecedented prosperity from oil exports. In gusty winds and chilly drizzle, voters throughout the small Nordic country trooped to polling stations where some 3.3 million voters were asked to elect representatives to the 165-seat parliament, the Storting. Opinion polls said the governing socialist Labour Party, that dominated Norwegian politics for most of the 20th century, was only expected to win ...

WASHINGTON - Drug control is out of control, say privacy advocates. A broad coalition of privacy groups is urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to red-flag the confirmation of President Bush’s designated "drug czar” until he promises to address invasions of personal privacy and civil liberties in the program. The letter, to be released at a news conference Monday, neither opposes nor supports the nomination of John Walters. Rather, the coalition, which includes conservative and some liberal groups, "wants to ensure that [Chairman Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member Orrin Hatch] and the [other] members of the Judiciary Committee,” scheduled to consider ...

Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism Advertising is good medicine By Wayne Dunn Imagine that you spent years of research and millions of investors' dollars developing an idea that could save or prolong hundreds of thousands of lives. You put your product on the market and advertise. But a few weeks later, various columnists and "talking heads" begin deriding you for it. Advertising, they say, harms consumers by raising the cost of the product they so desperately need (a product which wouldn't exist had you not created it). Soon there's a movement afoot to prevent you from ...

<p>DETROIT - The FBI tried during the weekend to convince Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien to take a lie-detector test regarding the disappearance of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, according to a letter that O'Brien's lawyer said came from the agent.</p> <p>William Bufalino said O'Brien received the letter Sunday from agent Andrew Sluss, who also wrote to O'Brien five years ago and said he didn't consider him a suspect in the case.</p>

Saudi puts off U.S. military talks due to Mideast DUBAI, Sept. 10 — Growing frustration in Saudi Arabia with what many Arabs see as Washington's blind support for Israel has prompted the oil-rich kingdom to put off military talks with its key Western ally, the United States. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Monday quoted Saudi sources as saying the kingdom has put off annual talks of the joint Saudi-U.S. military committee, which had been scheduled for Washington on August 29-30. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;It said the Saudi Defence Ministry turned down a U.S. request to ...

PLUTONIUM, the Contest | The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May/June 2001 Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 28-29 PLUTONIUM, the Contest by Linda Rothstein Sometimes when you try to correct a problem, you end up digging yourself into a deeper hole. When trying to decide how to get rid of the "excess" plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons, that hole is literal as well as figurative. This plutonium, once thought to be enormously valuable, is sought after now only by bad actors who would like to build their own stock of nuclear weapons, which makes the secure disposal of excess ...

Overloaded plane caused Aaliyah crash, NTSB says By Ken Kaye Staff Writer Posted September 9 2001 The Cessna 402B that crashed and killed R&B singer Aaliyah and eight others in the Bahamas was substantially overloaded, out of balance and tail-heavy, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Saturday. While the report provides few new details, it does confirm investigators' primarily suspicion that improper loading caused the Aug. 25 accident. "The total weight of the luggage, fuel on board at the time of the accident, plus the weight of the passengers showed that the total gross ...

Social Security and Medicare are Safe for Now By Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging September 6, 2001 Critics of President Bush have recently jumped on a new bandwagon of projected misery ­ this time attempting to scare America's seniors with tales of diminishing budget surpluses and a dismal outlook for Social Security and Medicare, wagging their collective fingers of fear ­ falsely implying that the well-deserved tax rebate checks now arriving in the mail somehow might draw from Social Security, and thus hurt today's retirees. They should know better. The reality is ...

J.C. Watts, Jr. is looking for feedback on free trade and Trade Promotional Authority legislation that Congress may consider later this year. To participate in this discussion on GOP.gov, click here.

Most liberty-minded Americans already know that the United Nations seeks to impose global government on all of us in the future, but now the organization is attempting to rewrite the past as well. Its recent week-long "World Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance" demonstrates just how broadly the UN views its own authority. Even though the stated goals of the conference- to map out an international strategy to combat racism and right the wrongs of the past- might seem laughably far-fetched, it's unsettling to think that the conference might be setting a precedent for more UN expansion ...

Court denies damages for widow of smoker, says tobacco company's job was to make money ORLEANS, France, Sept. 10 — An appeals court denied a request Monday for damages by the widow of a three-pack-a-day smoker, ruling that it was the state-owned tobacco company's job to make money for the government. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The tobacco company, Seita, ''was not unaware of the correlation between smoking and the risk of cancer, notably to the lungs,'' the court said. But the court said Seita's status as a state-run company did not permit it to ''make this information known to the ...

'Doonesbury' Creator Apologizes for Citing Bush IQ Hoax "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau apologized on the strip's Web site for using an Internet hoax on presidential IQs as the basis for Sunday's strip. The strip, a purported conversation between an unseen President George W. Bush and an adviser in the White House, cites as fact a purported ranking of presidential IQs based on public statements and writings. In the "study," Bush is said to have an IQ half that of former president Bill Clinton and a little more than half the average presidential vocabulary. The strip's Web site quotes outraged comments, ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept. 10 — A suicide bomber set off an explosion near a police post in Istanbul's historic Taksim Square on Monday, killing two policemen and injuring 21 people. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Istanbul Gov. Erol Cakir said 17 of the injured were police officers. Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that an Australian tourist was also hurt. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Taksim Square is a popular tourist area near hotels and office buildings. The blast, which also killed the bomber, occurred some 150 yards from the ...