The state of play: the modernisation continues

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Significant steps in improving UK safety conditions during 1995 included legislation such as the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act and Activity Centres (Young Person Safety) Act, approved Codes of Practice covering chemical tests and workplace regulations, and seven statutory instruments. Other important changes included a new Director General at Health and Safety Executive, guidances on stress and sick building syndrome, a record low number of employee fatal accidents, and major health campaigns on asbestos, transport safety, and carbon monoxide poisoning.

United Kingdom, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Illustration, Environmental policy

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The shocking state of electric car technology

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Regulators who have mandated that 2% of new cars sold in California to be zero-emission by 1998, moving up to 10% by 2003, may be doing more harm than good. Electronic autos are still not consumer-friendly, and have the potential of releasing large amounts of lead into the environment. The worst part about such mandates is that they force carmakers to focus on electric vehicles at the expense of other, more technologically sound options, such as hybrid fuels.

All Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing, Transportation equipment, not elsewhere classified, Electric Vehicles NEC, United States, Economic aspects, Automobiles, Environmental aspects, Air pollution control, Electric vehicles, Air quality management, Automobiles, Electric, Electric cars

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The enduring political nature of questions of state succession and secession and the quest for objective standards

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Peaceful state succession in the post-Cold War era may require the development of a set of objective international legal standards. Succession will increasingly be based on rule of law rather than brute force, so the standards for recognizing the legitimacy of emergent states will have to evolve. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will become particularly important players in the emergence of successor states.

Standards, Political aspects, International law, State succession, Dismemberment of nations, international

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