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...shortages in Silicon Valley and the southern California aerospace industry, and a low unemployment rate of 4.6 percent in September 2006, the U.S. is hardly overflowing with high-skill people out of work. Since the number of foreigners allowed to perform specialty occupations is not capped out of reasonable concern for national welfare, it is a protectionist measure that ends up telling many of our country’s hardest working specialists: “Go home.” The U.S. economy is strong largely because of its ability to attract and retain highly skilled scientists and engineers from...
...dove toward Japan's neighbors? The media like to stereotype politicians, especially those with mystique. But let's remember U.S. President Richard Nixon. He began his career as a crusading anticommunist but turned out to be the statesman who reached out to the Soviet Union and Red China. My concern is not whether Abe will patch things up with Japan's neighbors but how he will resuscitate the economy to revive Japan. Although I'm no cockeyed optimist, I believe that a pragmatic tactician like Abe may deliver. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Wan-hay Paul Li Hong Kong...
...lucky ones died instantly, but there were surely many others who suffered excruciating pain for hours. Al-Qaeda will never give up, so it is critical to get information from its members that could prevent another attack. Do we need to see more Americans die before people stop showing concern for the well-being of suicidal, psychopathic killers? Pierre Gauthier Pointe-Claire, Canada...
...mail asking for a "pic of you"? Certainly the page understood what the e-mail meant, which is why he forwarded it in August 2005 to the office of Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander, who had sponsored him for the page program and who was alarmed enough to take his concern to Boehner. "This freaked me out," the teenager wrote. "Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick...
...this suggests that the Republican leaders were motivated much more by fear of electoral fallout than concern for the young pages in their care. And if they were worried that the revelation would hurt their chances of holding on to the House, they turned out to be right. Before the scandal broke, they were beginning to believe that the clouds were finally clearing for them. Their fabled get-out-the-vote and fund-raising operations were nearing full stride just as gas prices were dropping and the national debate was refocusing on their home-court issue of terrorism...