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...meantime, foreclosures and unemployment continue to tick up. According to RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure database, the number of properties receiving foreclosure notices in July totaled 360,149, up 7% from June and up 32% from the same month a year ago...
...research on the Tale of Genji, a seminal Japanese novel composed by a woman over 1000 years ago, and her work on the relationship between painting and literature in pre-modern Japan have helped bring her to the forefront of her field...
Rosalba Piña, a Chicago attorney who co-hosts a local radio program on immigration law, agrees. She likens Mississippi officials to those who fought to keep 6-year-old Elián Gonzalez in the U.S. nine years ago because they argued his life would be better here than in impoverished Cuba with his father. "They're ignoring basic U.S. and international law," says Piña. "Unless there's some real threat to the child's life back in the home country, most judges know it's in the child's best interest to be with...
...network of NGOs is naming and shaming the worst polluters. The huge number of pollution-related protests-an estimated 50,000 took place in 2005-unambiguously demonstrates grass-roots resentment of the ecological burden of industrialization. So did a survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project about a year ago, which found that some 80% of Chinese felt protecting the environment should be a priority-a stark contrast to the global perception of the Chinese as a people in feckless pursuit of wealth...
...When in opposition, it has been an outspoken critic of the Congress party-led government's liberalization policies, seeking to speak for workers and small businesses perceived to have been disadvantaged by reforms. This marks a reversal from its own professed business-friendly politics when in power not long ago...