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Court spares small Dutch cafe over smoking ban
Apr 03, 2009 |
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A Dutch court on Friday rejected a bid by prosecutors to punish a small cafe for defying the smoking ban, arguing it was too small to be subject to the country's tough restrictions.
Small Dutch bars cannot be held to smoking ban: appeals court
May 12, 2009 |
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A Dutch appeals court ruled Tuesday that small bars with no staff except their owners are exempt from a national smoking ban introduced for the hospitality industry last July.
Health policy expert says US can learn from Dutch universal healthcare coverage
Dec 06, 2008 |
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The United States can learn from the Dutch Health Insurance System model, according to an article by Pauline V. Rosenau, Ph.D., in the December issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Dutch court: Web site must remove copyright works
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A civil court on Wednesday ordered Dutch Web site Mininova to remove within three months all files on its servers that point to copyrighted works or face a fine of up to euro5 million ($7.16 million).
Dutch court rules Pirate Bay must quit Netherlands
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Dutch court ruled Thursday that three men connected with Web site The Pirate Bay must block traffic between the site and the Netherlands within 10 days.
Foreign subtitles improve speech perception
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
Nov 13, 2009 |
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The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
Dutch approve project to store CO2 underground
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The Dutch government said Wednesday it had approved the experimental below-ground storage of excess CO2 to curb damaging emissions, dismissing concerns of residents who live on top of the project.
Electricity systems can cope with large-scale wind power
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Research by TU Delft, Netherlands, proves that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind ...
Is personal data safe at firms?
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Making rules can be just as difficult as complying with them. Dutch researcher Marieke Thijssen investigated how well the Personal Data Protection Act (Dutch acronym Wbp) is harmonised with other rules that firms must comply ...
Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy
Apr 07, 2009 |
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A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.
Facial expressions say more than 1,000 words
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 15, 2008 |
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People talk to exchange information. Yet understanding another person involves far more than just the content of the message. Only with the correct intonation and facial expression does the message acquire meaning. People ...
'Dutch' Batavians more Roman than thought
Oct 23, 2009 |
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The Batavians, who lived in the Netherlands at the start of the Christian era were far more Roman than was previously thought. After just a few decades of Roman occupation, the Batavians had become so integrated that they ...
Would-be buyer of Pirate Bay backpedals in court
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The would-be buyer of Web site The Pirate Bay backpedaled in a Dutch court Tuesday, saying that it is uncertain whether the purchase will ever be completed.
Pirate Bay to challenge Dutch ban
Aug 10, 2009 |
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The owners of Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay will seek a retrial after a Dutch court temporarily banned its activities in the Netherlands, their lawyer said on Monday.
