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...large number of the businesses. These businesses supply the assembly lines of foreign and domestic car manufacturing facilities around the country. The suspension of building vehicles will actually help The Big Three reduce inventory, but that is a short-lived benefit that ends the moment the companies need to begin to begin production again...
...financing offers from an array of public and private actors to be tabled in July. And in October, he will introduce legislation to strip down construction, zoning, and other laws that have traditionally slowed development in the city. Sarkozy also said he wants construction on the transport system to begin by 2012 - just in time for his re-election campaign - and wants much of the work of the Greater Paris plan completed within a decade. (Read: "What's Wrong With a Museum of French History...
...swine flu frenzy gripping the U.S., the threat coming from south of the Mexico border may seem more real to many Americans than ever before. But the U.S. border authorities who patrol that 1,969 mile long border have another stealth threat to worry about. This month, they will begin installing the first small, 50 mile segment of a "virtual fence" on the dividing line with Mexico. By 2014 most of the border will be home to sensor-equipped towers that are linked to a central communications network. But while proponents argue that the system will help stem the flow...
...been largely turned on the difficulties and injustices plaguing the country’s underfunded urban school districts. Rural public education, however, poses its own unique set of challenges—and, at the risk of sounding trite, opportunities. In just over three months, I’ll begin teaching in the Mississippi Delta, and even attempting to imagine what my “experience” will be seems reductive and simplistic. While we recognize the complexities of urban life, it is tempting to incorrectly essentialize and romanticize the American “rural experience.”Nevertheless...
...unauthorized youth grow up, they slowly begin to comprehend how unjust the world is for those who are born without citizenship from a privileged nation. Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, unauthorized youth sit in the same classrooms as U.S. citizens do, but they are barred from meaningful employment ,and it’s almost impossible for them to attend college. Regardless of how talented these students may be, their options are limited after they graduate. There is no viable way for unauthorized youth to secure legal immigration status. It is easier for unauthorized youth to get into Harvard than...