Luxembourg is a linguistically

Luxembourg is a linguistically complicated country, a

reflection of its complicated past. It began as a Roman

fortress. It has, at one time or another, fallen under the

control of Spain, France and Austria. In 1839, it gained its

independence from the Netherlands, but lost more than half

its territory to Belgium, which now has a province of the

same name. In the 20th century, Germany swept through

Luxembourg twice despite its protestations of neutrality.

Luxembourgish is related to German, but it is primarily a

spoken language. In the country’s schools, elementary

students take all their classes in German. When students

reach their teens, gradually all classes are converted to

French. And English is studied the entire time.

But the language dearest to their hearts is Luxembourgish. As

71-year-old retired engineer Rene Ries — a typical

Luxembourger, with a French first name and a German last name

— said, Luxembourgish is generally spoken in the home. When

there is a complaint, the police file their reports in

German. Then the lawyers litigate the case in French.

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Asked in which language he felt most comfortable, Ries

replied without hesitation that it was Luxembourgish. But he

admitted he had trouble writing it. Under duress, he could

write his daughter a postcard, he said, but the language is

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most commonly spoken, not written.

Luxembourg, an important financial center and home to the

world’s largest steel manufacturer, continues to prosper

despite Europe’s economic trouble. The country has the

second-highest gross domestic product per capita in the

world, more than $80,000 — though its population of about

510,000 people is still smarting from having lost the No. 1

spot to Qatar. The capital city has 80,000 inhabitants and

120,000 jobs.

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Special branch ASI Apurba Bhattacharya popped sleeping pills
and tried to slit his wrist with a blade. He was taken to
Medical College Hospital. Doctors said his condition was
critical. Senior officers said Bhattacharya attempted suicide
for personal reasons. But the cop's colleagues said he had a
grudge against a senior officer, which might have been the
cause.
The CM had left the secretariat several hours ago.
This February, police constable Sahabdeb Mondal, who was
posted at one of the gates at Writers', had shot himself.Less
than one-fourth of Chinese like India, found a survey by the
Washington-based Pew Research Center. The attitude of the
Chinese towards Pakistan though somewhat better, is not
hugely favourable. The findings underscore Indian
government's poor efforts to implement the much-publicized
attempt to build people-to-people relationship.
The annual survey of global attitudes found 23% of people in
India and China take a favourable view of each other's
country. About 53% urban Indians think the economic rise of
China is bad for India and 26% said it was good for the
country.
The Pew report found the Chinese attitude towards Pakistan is
only slightly better - 31% of Chinese respondents favour
Pakistan. This is surprising since foreign ministry officials
and the state-controlled media are constantly praising
Pakistan for being in the "forefront in the war against
terror".

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States that did not already have enrichment and reprocessing technology might blanch at being forbidden from ever developing it. But those states would have a guaranteed supply of fuel from an international organization, and they could console themselves with the fact that every other country was in the same boat. For enrichment-capable countries, too, the plan would pose challenges. What would it take, for example, to buy out the private elements of existing uranium-enrichment companies? In the United States, any whiff of "nationalization"--let alone internationalization--would provoke industrial and ideological opposition. But the enrichment industry is small: There is only a single uranium-enrichment facility currently operating in the United States, and it is leased from the U.S. government by the United States Enrichment Corporation, a private company with a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Internationalizing a venture that size seems a small price to pay for strengthening the nonproliferation regime. Indeed, globally, the enrichment industry yields only $5 billion in revenue per year--hardly enough for any country to justify undermining nonproliferation efforts.
True, such ideas have floundered before. In 1946, drawing on recommendations prepared by physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who had led America's wartime effort to develop the atomic bomb, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, presented President Truman with a plan to internationalize all enrichment and reprocessing under an Atomic Development Authority. That plan shattered on the animosities of the incipient cold war--neither the United States nor the Soviet Union was ready to cede control of such a crucial technology. But, as we move into this perilous new phase, it's a plan that should be exhumed and urgently considered, so that we can prevent this nuclear renaissance from slipping into a nuclear dark age.'Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions,"