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Germany's new iron curtain A particularly severe winter, with temperatures as low as -22° C, has had a heavy toll among refugees attempting to cross Germany's eastern border with Poland and the Czech Republic. On December 7, a 35-year-old
Mr spermatozoon finds a homeMr spermatozoon finds a home Pick a day — any day — and there is sure to be a lot of human semen entering the world from private parts unknown. What it gets up to — when it gets out there — is anyone's
Not aloneNot alone By Brandon Astor Jones "This was a passage I read in a magazine. The author is unknown ... I wondered if any of your readers could place it. I loved the passage so much, I'm sharing it with you. I wish I had written it, for
Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths Researchers have found butyltin compounds, including tributyltin (TBT), in the liver, kidney and muscle of bottlenose dolphins that were stranded along the south-east US Atlantic and Gulf coasts between 1989 and
Hitler hated homosexuals too Homophobia is alive and well in Australia's governments. It was flushed out by the January 31 ruling by the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal that a lesbian who had been refused a sperm donor by a Queensland
JEAN-BAPTISTE MULEMBA MAKUBI, spokesperson of the Coalition of Democratic Organisations of the Zairean Diaspora (CODEZAD), was interviewed by ALAIN MATHIEU in the December 19 issue of the French left weekly Rouge. In France, CODEZAD represents the
By Marina Cameron Since taking office, the federal Liberal government has implemented a number of measures to further deregulate the school system and shift funding away from public schools. New legislation has removed restrictions on the number of
Political instability in Indonesia: A record of riots Compiled by James Balowski 1995 January 1 — After an East Timorese was killed by a migrant, thousands of East Timorese in Bacau set fire to markets destroying at least 90 shops and leaving
Industrial dispute at Viking By Nick Markin SYDNEY — Workers at Viking Office Products in Rydalmere have faced harassment and intimidation in their attempts to remove an unsafe work practice which leads to back injuries. Members of the National
How to plug the real black holes By Dick Nichols The following measures, which would fall most on those most able to bear them, would readily rake in funds needed to fund public health care, education and other welfare spending: Lifting the
Activists distributing Green Left Weekly sometimes get accused of being engaged in "brainwashing" — of trying, in the act of selling the paper, to "impose" the ideas it contains on other people. What seems to be forgotten in this accusation is
Two more PRD activist to go on trial By James Balowski On February 4, the Jakarta daily Kompas reported that the trials of People's Democratic Party activists I Gusti Anom Astika and Wilson bin Nurtias have begun. Twelve PRD members are now being