Prostitution benefit rights raise in Bonn and Vatican inquiry moves
Bonn debates legal rights for prostitutes to unemployment health and retirement benefits as Der Spiegel cites Christine Bergmann. In Vatican City the Catholic Church moves toward acknowledging errors of the Inquisition after a scholars symposium. Seoul protests demand rapid reforms while Yeltsin returns early from Sochi seeking to resume duties as Kremlin clarifies his well being.
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Bonn
Germany
Laser eye surgery boom lifts sight as flap and laser reshape cornea
In New Orleans a patient enjoys first day after LASIK with blurred vision improving, while a symposium discusses risks. The procedure, PRK or LASIK, costs 1500 to 2750 per eye and mostly treats farsightedness or nearsightedness with growing popularity and limited insurance coverage.
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New Orleans
Faye Galland
American Academy of Ophthalmology
Elias Vamvakis
Laser Center
Music to the brain How rhythm reshapes memory and emotion
Scientists report that listening to music activates brain regions tied to memory motor control timing and language and now identify areas linked to emotional responses. Researchers from McGill University note music could retrain brains in emotional disorders or neurological diseases as general brain biology for music is established.
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Anne Blood
McGill University
Montreal
Society For Neuroscience
Los Angeles
Harvard University Medical School
Mark Tramp
Kosovo Refugees Endure Winter After Mass Displacement
A calm, sobering report from Pristina details shattered homes and graves as Kosovo Albanians face a long road to rebuilding. Witnesses describe shelling, mass displacement, and deep ethnic resentment as 150,000 to 300,000 Kosovars flee or remain homeless amid ongoing political crisis and winter hardships.
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Pristina
Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Bobovac
Albania
Zenel Ahmeti
Jablanica
Florije
Yugo
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