Word: preparedness
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There's also backlash over the potential impact that an influx of up to a million immigrants could have on society in coming years. Singapore has steadily been adding about 100,000 expats annually since 1990, census data shows. Foreigners now make up about 19% of the city's population...
The Israelis have focused their fury on Hamas, not Fatah, whose armed gangs are loosely tied to President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader preferred by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Bush Administration. Israeli jets scorched Gaza, killing Hamas militants as they prepared to launch rockets or while speeding through...
On Wednesday evening, as their classmates prepared to bare skin for Primal Scream, about a hundred students rallied on the steps of University Hall to kick off the “I Am Harvard” campaign, intended to show that skin of all colors belongs at Harvard.
It has become cliché, these days, to bemoan the fact that the American education system, despite its vast expenditures, is constantly losing ground when compared to the rest of the developed world. Nevertheless, when one puts hard numbers to the bromide, it becomes, well, much less of a bromide...
But the government doesn't appear to have an answer. Since Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, the territory has teetered on the brink of civil war between Palestinian factions. Fatah, which oversaw the creation of the Palestinian Authority in negotiation with Israel and the United States, lost its monopoly...