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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Lithuania drops requirement of gynecological tests for women drivers

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- Lithuania's Health Ministry on Tuesday scrapped a Soviet-era rule requiring that women undergo gynecological examinations to qualify for a driver's license.

An ombudsman office in the former Soviet Baltic republic recently declared the provision discriminatory since men aren't asked to take an equivalent medical test.

"It should have been revoked a long time ago," Ausrine Burneikiene, who heads the office, said. "This requirement made our country look more than strange."

The Health Ministry announced its decision to strike the rule from the books after carrying out a five-month study. [...]
Five month study?


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