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Sunday, July 06, 2003
 

Internet Access as a Human Right

Estonia's 2000 law that declared Internet access a human right is referred to vaugely in the CS monitor and being slashdotted.

This, hot on the heels, or should I say shoulders -- of the Estonian dominance of the Wife Carrying World Championships.

"We take too many things seriously," concedes Indrek Keskyla, the mayor of Vaike-Maarja. He blames the communists who ran this Baltic nation. "In the old Soviet Union days, we had to be serious, gray people," he says. Under communist rule, the village pushed to be the best farm cooperative in Estonia. Now, it produces the best wife carriers.


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