Закрывают школу в Швеции

Видел вчера следующий перевод со шведского:

Гётеборгское школьное управление распорядилось закрыть небольшую хасидскую школу Бейт Менахем из-за того, что девочки и мальчики в ней обучаются раздельно. Школе 10 лет, но недавно власти заявили, что шведский закон не разрешает раздельное обучение детей, за исключением полового образования.

Поскольку в школе учатся только 20 детей из двух семей, одна из которых вскоре уезжает в Англию, а другая собирается уехать осенью, апелляции не будет.

Шведский оригинал: http://www.thelocal.se/7651/
http://www.metro.se/se/article/2007/06/19/19/1445-45/index.xml

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Read the sunspots
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling

R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON, Financial Post
Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that "the science is settled." At the recent G8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel even attempted to convince world leaders to play God by restricting carbon-dioxide emissions to a level that would magically limit the rise in world temperatures to 2C.

The fact that science is many years away from properly understanding global climate doesn't seem to bother our leaders at all. Inviting testimony only from those who don't question political orthodoxy on the issue, parliamentarians are charging ahead with the impossible and expensive goal of "stopping global climate change." Liberal MP Ralph Goodale's June 11 House of Commons assertion that Parliament should have "a real good discussion about the potential for carbon capture and sequestration in dealing with carbon dioxide, which has tremendous potential for improving the climate, not only here in Canada but around the world," would be humorous were he, and even the current government, not deadly serious about devoting vast resources to this hopeless crusade.

Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth. ( Read more... )