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...murdered in May 2002. Sarkozy's comments primed France for a divisive debate in the French National Assembly this week over a new, tougher law on immigration. In the run-up to last month's regional elections in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke approvingly of more rigorous citizenship tests. "Citizenship cannot just be nodded through," she said. In the Netherlands, right-wing Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stands a very good chance of winning this month's vote for party leader among members of the vvd party, which is part of the governing coalition. Her take-no-prisoners approach to stanching...
...case of Oksana, the help included a plan that called on Scott's relatives to test her randomly with a home kit if they thought she was using drugs. If Oksana tested positive, her in-laws agreed to take Chloe but only temporarily. None of Scott's family members were up to keeping her permanently, since many of them had either already raised or were raising youngsters of their own. So Oksana ran the risk of losing her daughter permanently to the state's foster-care system, if she was unable to stay clean for a long period of time...
...elite school.” While a large gender gap has not yet arrived at Harvard, it is not a surprise that the gap has developed in general, according to Kuziemko. “In the past 20-30 years, the typical high school girl has significantly raised her test scores, grades, and the difficulty of her classes relative to the typical high school boy,” she said. The NBER paper also attributes the rise in female undergraduate participation to the rise in women’s labor force participation and the increase in the average...
...then you can look at United 93 as an indication for that. If you look at the last five years as a misjudgment and a mistake, you’ll look at this film as an indication as well. I wanted this film to be a kind of Rorschach test, an inkblot, that you hold up and people project their hopes and fears and fantasies onto. But the true meaning of United 93 is neither of the things. It doesn’t confirm either. It just confirms the reality of hard choices, the extraordinary human courage to face hard...
...decades Pahrump (pop. 6,000) has relied on the test site to provide steady work. Salaries average $41,000, enough to pay for new homes, sports cars and vacation trips. To residents, the nuclear age has brought the good life; antinuke talk of "economic reconversion" is considered a euphemism for unemployment in Nye County. In the Nevada desert, the protesters are a source of resentment and frustration to the workers. Yet testers and protesters alike profess the same goal: safety in a nuclear age. Says Moore: "Anyone seeing the shots as I have, and the awesome power they have, must...