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...Though the policy won't be detailed until Parliament resumes later this month, refugee law experts are far from sure he's right. What is clear is the law's broad intent: to extend the Pacific Solution - which excised dozens of Australian islands from the official migration zone so boat people landing on them could be sent to processing centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea - to the Australian mainland. Those arriving illegally by boat will now be sent to such centers and, if found to be refugees, resettled elsewhere...
...knowing when to go to the local community hospital and when to seek out the major teaching center. For all their fame and all-star doctors, teaching hospitals carry risks of their own. The sickest patients often have compromised immune systems and may need to be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics--which increases the chance that antibiotic-resistant strains of staph and other bacteria will make the rounds of the intensive-care unit. As a rule, doctors decide where to go based on how sick they are. For fairly routine care--a hip replacement, a hernia operation--they will often...
...cease their funding of the Hamas-operated Palestinian Authority (PA). Nevertheless, supporting the Palestinian people is a noble goal; therefore, humanitarian aid should continue to flow through organizations such as the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Following the attacks, Israel could have launched a campaign of retribution and broad destruction of Palestinian infrastructure. Rather, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took measured steps to stop travel in select, dangerous areas of the West Bank and to target only leaders of Islamic Jihad. This is the type of restraint that needs to be shown on both sides of the conflict in order...
...perfect model for affordable housing networks.”At a meeting of the Tenant’s Association in March, evaluations of the land swap were passed out in five languages. A mix of white and black, Hispanic, Korean and Chinese, the residents represent a broad swath of the American working class.“It’s pretty diverse,” Harper says. “There’s pretty much every race I can think of.”But in interviews, tenants repeatedly praise the apartments for being quiet, safe, and peaceful. Bordered...
...election year, it's also not altogether surprising that Georgia's GOP governor signed the Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Even though the state continues to trend more Republican, Perdue faces a very real challenge this fall from Democratic Secretary of State Cathy Cox, and the law commanded broad public support in a state with an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 undocumented immigrants...