In principle, such a compulsory age is discriminatory, but the European directive allows countries to set a national retirement age.

ECONOMIST: Age discrimination

The ONS is looking at other methods of counting the population, such as a compulsory register of addresses.

BBC: Census 'should be scrapped now'

Until such ideas win more support, advocates of busing in Charlotte fear that a court ruling ending compulsory busing would toss aside years of desegregation efforts, and inner-city schools would become jammed with poor children, most of them black.

ECONOMIST: Integration (1)