Word: barriere
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...factory in this southern Chinese city, and now he's trying to get back home for the holidays. The trip to his hometown outside the central city of Suzhou takes more than 20 hours - if he can board. Around him, hundreds of people push towards an opening in the barrier surrounding the station. A police officer standing behind a fence shouts into a megaphone, calling for order. "I haven't made any money here," Gao says. "But I want to go home to see my mother...
...Climate Security Act has passed the first barrier to becoming law, but the road is only going to get tougher. To have a chance in the Senate, the bill needs at least 60 votes - anything less, and opponents can stop it with a filibuster. That will require winning over more conservative Senators, while at the same time ensuring the bill doesn't become so watered down that it loses all effectiveness. And even if the bill were to pass the Senate, and then the House of Representatives, it still has to make it through President George W. Bush...
...hoping, once and for all, to change that perception. During the first intermission of Sunday's NHL All-Star game in Atlanta, the league is honoring Willie O'Ree, who broke hockey's color barrier 50 years ago. But half a century later, with hockey in desperate need of new fans to restore its fading relevance in the U.S., the game still holds very little appeal among blacks...
...Bottom line: hockey needs a transcendent African-American star, a Tiger Woods, to market the game to a black audience. "If you had somebody of that caliber who was African-American, then, yeah, I think that would break the barrier," says James Jemison, a black hockey fan from Atlanta. Iginla is great, but as a Canadian who grew up in hockey-mad Alberta, his backstory isn't that surprising...
...that Gazans have exploded out of their besieged enclave, it may be up to Israel to seal the border again, since the Egyptians are showing no signs of closing it. Israel corralled Gaza's 1.5 million people behind a 40-mile-long (64 km) concrete barrier hoping that the controversial blockade?described as "collective punishment" by many aid organizations?would turn the Palestinians against their Hamas overlords. But with the siege broken, even if temporarily, Hamas, with its explosives no less, has earned the gratitude of hungry Palestinians and gained a longer lease in Gaza...