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...IMMIGRATION 800 Number of illegal African migrants intercepted by Spanish authorities as they tried to sail to the Canary Islands last week 6,000 Estimated number of African migrants who died or went missing attempting the same journey last year. Over 30,000 reached the islands-a sixfold increase from...
...accused of discrimination. And two decades after that, she assumed the post of GSAS dean.The University faced a second challenge from another young female professor seeking to gain standing at Harvard within months of Skocpol’s allegation. Although the number of female tenured Faculty professors has grown sixfold within the last 25 years, unease persists among female scholars at Harvard. Skocpol’s story continues to reverberate at William James Hall, home to the University’s Sociology Department, and throughout academia wherever her former colleagues and students have landed...
Americans who resist the coffee culture are brewing up a growing market: U.S. tea sales are up sixfold since 1990. As tea goes gourmet, all-natural labels such as Rishi and Ito En are moving in on Snapple and Lipton. Here's a taste of what the tea world will be savoring this summer...
...invested more than $4 billion since 2001 to buy stakes in Chinese financial institutions, including nearly 20% in both Bank of Communications, China's fifth largest bank, and Ping An Insurance, its second biggest life insurer. Compared with the same period in 2004, pretax profits in China increased sixfold, to $161 million, in the first half of 2005. As a sign of its renewed influence in the Middle Kingdom, the bank resides today in a new skyscraper called HSBC Tower in Shanghai's up-and-coming financial district of Pudong, across the Huangpu River from the bank's old, domed...
...intended message in November?s parliamentary poll. As the liberal Nour was suffering his defeat, Egypt?s Muslim Brotherhood, a party that seeks to reestablish an Islamic caliphate, was given unprecedented leeway by the regime to field its candidates. It captured nearly 20 percent of the seats, a sixfold improvement on its previous best showing, making the fundamentalists the largest opposition force in parliament. Egypt?s future has thus become a polarizing struggle between Mubarak and Islam, a contest that liberals, with Nour in jail rather than in parliament, have little hope of winning...