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...wholeheartedly support Stengel's call for national service. I have written my Representatives proposing an idea, to no avail. I suggest that instead of creating elaborate laws to solve the problem of illegal immigration, we should require that illegal aliens spend a year in national service--defending the country in the military, rebuilding infrastructure or combating climate change in a green corps--to become eligible for citizenship...
...where the Doha Round of talks, aimed at getting rich economies to lower barriers to poor nations' exports, has been in gridlock for years. The APEC leaders are expected to issue a statement urging a breakthrough, but they did that last year and the year before that to no avail. And if the Doha talks fail, says economist Edwards, "it becomes all the more important that this region have the widest free-trade agreement possible." Downer, however, sees that as a very remote prospect: "It's an aspiration. There's not going to be any timeline set" in Sydney...
...spent hours online Googling things like ‘Ecuador+Harry+Potter+release+date+please+god+tell+me+when,’ all to no avail,” Duncan wrote in an e-mail. “I have a friend in Japan who told me that she had to wait for months for the books to be translated into Japanese, but I think that the Spanish version miiiiight be available within a few days of the English release, July 21. I’d prefer to read it in English, of course, but I’ll take...
...critical to the Texas film industry. "No one is saying you can't shoot a movie in Texas that makes Texas look bad. All we are saying is you are not going to get a grant," Sims said. And regardless of content, all filmmakers will be able to avail themselves of the state's generous sales tax exemption on production costs...
...year, Britain's Potato Council complained that the definition of couch potato implied that the nutritious tuber was inherently unhealthy, thus driving down business. Instead, the Council campaigned for the term to be replaced by couch slouch, even staging protests outside the OED's Oxford headquarters - but to no avail...