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...students. Similarly, experts thought last year’s proposition to decriminalize marijuana in Massachusetts had no chance of passing, but it was successful, putting the state into Canada-like territory for acceptable drug use. And, most infamously, opposition to Proposition 8 became a cause célèbre only after it was voted through by California residents...
...surprisingly, Rifqa is turning into a cause célèbre. Conservative websites often accused of anti-Muslim agendas, such as the Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs and WorldNetDaily, have been lighting up over the Rifqa fight. No doubt conservative and anti-U.S. Muslims will eventually step into the media frenzy. And politicians have already started weighing in. Florida's moderate Republican governor and U.S. Senate candidate, Charlie Crist, who needs conservative voters to win his state's closed GOP primary next year, issued a statement on Aug. 21 saying he's "grateful to Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson...
...company also began signing partnerships with Liberia's tens of thousands of small rubber farmers. Under the deals, BRE builds roads and bridges to the plantations, removes old rubber trees and pays the farmers for them, smooths the land, replants it with new saplings grown at a BRE nursery and even plants cash crops like beans and peanuts between the rows. These crops give the farmer an income for the five to seven years until the rubber trees start producing latex. The rubber farmers have to do or pay nothing. BRE even trains and employs up to 1,000 people...
...miles (600 km) of dirt road, leveled thousands of acres of rubber, identified 600,000 (250,000 hectares) more, and won a $112-million loan from the U.S. government-funded Overseas Private Investment Corporation to build the power station. In Buchanan, they're helping to revive a town. BRE pays wages of up to $600 a month for a heavy plant operator and Baines reckons the number of shops in Buchanan has doubled since BRE arrived. Buchanan suddenly has a third-division soccer team, in which Baines plays striker. "It's moving so quickly," says Nelson Hill, 39, BRE...
Rebuilding institutions takes time and many Liberians are frustrated as Johnson Sirleaf tries to get the state working. But they know she stands for better times. "Before, the only work was fighting," says BRE nursery manager Hill. "Now there's a new vision for our people. The idea of a gun is being replaced by the idea of a job." There in a sentence is the new hope for Liberia, and all Africa...