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Fires ease as PM vows to protect forests Firefighters aided by wet weather Firefighters were aided by the weather this weekend in their efforts to contain forest fires in northern, central Greece and Attica as Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis pledged yesterday to stop developers building on any of the burned land.

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Papandreou makes reforms pledge

If PASOK wins the next election, it will reform Greece's social security and education systems, create a separate Environment Ministry...

US envoy missing on Cyprus

Cypriot police said yesterday they were searching for a senior American diplomat stationed in Nicosia who has been missing for three days...

Christodoulos is on the mend

The health of Archbishop Christodoulos is improving rapidly and the head of the Church of Greece could leave the hospital...

Vehicles smashed in rampage

A dispute between fans of rival soccer teams in eastern Athens led to a group of some 30 youths rampaging through the streets of Zografou...

Museum on Acropolis closes for big move

The Acropolis Museum next to the Parthenon will close today so that preparations can get under way for the transfer...

IN BRIEF

Volunteer collapses while trying to put out fire at factory in Halandri : A volunteer firefighter died yesterday as he attempted...

Nine-year term for people smuggler : A court on the eastern Aegean island of Kos...

Bribery charge : An employee of the Organization...

Shaky ground : An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted...

Holiday time : There was a significant increase this weekend in the number...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to meet with her Lithuanian counter part...

Tuesday : Parliament hosts an exhibition titled...

Wednesday : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to visit Rome...

Thursday : Andreas Papandreou Institute of Strategic Development Studies (ISTAME) holds...

Friday : New Democracy conference begins...


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Time to assign blame for Parnitha disaster President Karolos Papoulias, when faced with the nightmare of a scorched Mount Parnitha, asked: «Where are we going? What kind of world are we making? What land will we be leaving behind us?» His words are being echoed by millions of Greeks who look on as the flames devour more of the country's natural resources, leaving charred remains in their wake - not to mention land made available for «development.»

COMMENTARY

Zen, motorbikes and ashes While still in school, many years before I rode a motorcycle myself, I was impressed by an observation in Robert M. Pirsig's cult novel, «Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.» There, the philosopher (an uneasy rider if ever there was one) notes that riding a motorcycle brings you much closer...

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