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...what we do, we'll simply stop and do something easier. Indeed, it's happening. Nearly 150,000 nursing jobs languish unfilled today in the U.S. (We've already lured over every nurse that Ireland and the Philippines had to offer, and now we're recruiting in sub-Saharan Africa.) And these are good-paying jobs. There's a doctor shortage too - and those jobs pay even more...
...highest legal body commuting the death sentences in the case to life in prison. Since then, efforts to secure their release have advanced so quickly that Sarkozy has accepted an invitation by Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi to visit the country - probably as an additional stop, on Wednesday, to an Africa trip Sarkozy had set to begin upon Thursday. But Elysée officials have since confided it would be unseemly for Sarkozy to meet Ghaddafi before the six Bulgarian nations were freed, raising expectations that Madame Sarkozy and the French presidential jet still present in Libya were...
...California microbiologist Shereen Sabet, 36, came up with her full-coverage Splashgear suits after searching in vain for Islam-appropriate scuba gear. The UV-resistant, stretchy swimsuits start at $90 and have found upwards of 6,000 buyers--most of them online--in locations as varied as Malaysia, South Africa, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S. "I'm a very small business with a product the whole world wants," says Zanetti...
African immigrants in South Africa are not unaware of the irony of their treatment in the self-proclaimed "Rainbow Nation," whose constitution declares "that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity." But for Betri Jama, 21, whose shop in Motherwell was razed in February, South Africans are not learning from their own history: "The same people who know oppression, who know dehumanization, they are the people who are oppressing us now," she says...
...Thirteen years after the country's first democratic election, the constitution's promise of a nation united in its diversity may remain more an aspiration than a reality. In today's South Africa, whites, coloreds and blacks still segregate themselves into single-race neighborhoods - not by law, but consent and economic circumstance. "It's the continuation of the apartheid mindset," says Lefko-Everett. And apartheid's saddest legacy turns out to be this: it didn't just make racists out of whites...