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Last week Wendy McElroy explored the Violence Against Women Act's provisions on "mail order brides" and found it wanting. This week she takes on the bill's "cyberstalking" amendments Kennedy claims Capitol Hill cutup title: Could Ted Kennedy have been putting one over on voters all of these years? Michael M. Bates gets that feeling when the senator from Massachusetts speaks Communities should welcome Wal-Mart -- in the name of freedom and justice: No one has the right to prevent businesses from expanding to new locations, argues Edwin A. Locke Double-standard treatment for child abusers: Did you know that the majority of child abusers in America are females? Carey Roberts says they often get a free pass on some of the most horrific behavior imaginable No politics in the pub: W. James Antle III may be paid to share his opinions on the issues of the day but sometimes you just want to relax with a cold beer.

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Meanwhile, the two-hour-long power failure in the grid of the Northern Railway resulted in the arrival of Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi Express and Himalayan Queen two hours behind schedule. The snag had developed near Panipat, said sources.

minazione e resistenza irakena

11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) rank among the 12 warmest years in instrumental records of global surface temperatures (since 1850)

* Global average sea level has risen since 1961 at an average rate of 1.8mm per year but since 1993 at an average rate of 3.1mm

* Temperature changes will depend on how much CO2 is emitted, but different scenarios see the increase by 2100 ranging from 0.3C to 6.4C

* Up to 30 per cent of the world's species are at increased risk of extinction after a 2C temperature rise

* Between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa could suffer water shortages by 2020; in Asia, heavily-populated "mega-deltas" are at greatly increased risk of flooding; tropical forest in eastern Amazonia will turn to savannah by mid-century


FURTHER REPORTS

The Big Melt: Lessons from the Arctic Summer of 2007
October 2007, carbon equity.

Smashing the glass ceiling

A few women are taking a number of boards, just like the men have done so before them," she says.

Ms Perrons, of the LSE, says that while the quota level is symbolically important and may actually influence strategic thinking, other gender issues remain.

"It is also important to tackle gender imbalance throughout the organisational hierarchy, in particular the gender-differentiated pay gap or the highly gendered, uneven monetary rewards for different kinds of work," she says.

Final frontier

Ms Landsnes believes that the group of people who put forward board members also needs to change.

"It is important to look at the nomination committees - they propose new board members. They are mainly men and they will appoint men."

Ms Hoel admits that despite Norway being a global pioneer on achieving gender balance at the distant board level the country has too few women actually running companies from the top.

Harmony may be shut down

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to shut down Harmony Community School, a charter school in Roselawn.