Word: burdens
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...pacify angry critics last week by no longer calling it a blockade. Whatever it is called, approval for the crackdown in El Paso -- as high as 85% -- means that Reyes will probably maintain it unless he receives instructions from Washington to dismantle the program. To ease the economic burden, Roman Catholic bishops on both sides of the border last week urged a possible relaxation of the laws. One suggestion: granting temporary work permits to some Mexican day laborers and maids, so that they may cross the border for a limited period of time. Already, the blockade is spawning ingenious...
...carried the gene variant lived on average two years longer than noncarriers. "We still can't say exactly why," Weiss says. And though the effect of this gene variant, if confirmed, could help explain a huge number of HIV infections, it still cannot come close to explaining the AIDS burden of Africa. Nearly 70% of all HIV-positive people in the world live in sub-Saharan Africa, and prevalence rates in adults in some African countries top 20%. What's more, the gene variant is most common in West Africa, but HIV-infection rates in that region remain very...
...raise their four sons by running a corner shop and tailoring clothes. Pineda performed in local singing competitions until the age of 13, when his mother died from an extended illness. Medical bills had drained their savings, leaving the family homeless and living with relatives. Not wanting to burden his father, Pineda struck out on his own, collecting newspapers and bottles, and living on the street for nearly two years. When he was 15, a friend encouraged him to start singing again, beginning Pineda's 25-year career as a cover-band vocalist in the Philippines and Hong Kong...
...flavor of the law basically shifts the burden of proving self-defense from the shooter to the state. In places like Mississippi and Texas, the law says that citizens have no duty to retreat from any confrontation anywhere when threatened; milder versions exist in states like Connecticut and Colorado, where they cover confrontations only in homes or businesses. That's the version that will go into effect in Ohio in September. Democratic governor Ted Strickland signed the bill in June, against the wishes of a number of state law-enforcement groups...
...There's a clear sense of urgency here," says Nobuo Tanaka, director of the International Energy Agency. "The oil burden is going to keep rising to levels of the last oil shock, in the 1970s. There's a sense now that this is a shared problem...