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...Similarly, Mario Perez, a Mexican with his green card who is trying to become a citizen, couldn?t skip class at Malcolm X College, a community college a few blocks from Union Park. ?I have an English test. Maybe I?ll go over there later, but this I have to do,? said Perez, 62, who has been in the country for about 40 years. ?That?s what I?m doing. I?m bettering myself. I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: The Marchers Gather in Chicago | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...deteriorated so far that those who have prospects abroad leave," says Rinus Penninx, an immigration expert at the University of Amsterdam. "And that's not the group you want to lose." Such complications have been part of the reason Britain's political parties have not been playing the immigration card too obviously, even while the country appears to be inflamed over the subject. Last week Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered his resignation, which Prime Minister Tony Blair refused, when it was revealed that Clarke's department had released 1,023 foreigners back into the community after serving prison terms - including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love It or Leave It: Xenophobia Goes Mainstream | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...Number of years that two Texas brothers, ages 63 and 65, have been mailing each other the same recycled birthday card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 8, 2006 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

15¢ Price of the card when it was bought in 1964, when it cost just a nickel to mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 8, 2006 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...ethnic Tamil from the village of Poovarasakulam, a few kilometers from the de facto border between government and rebel territory in northern Sri Lanka. Around 1:25 p.m. last Tuesday, Kugenthirasah arrived at the front gate of the Sri Lankan army headquarters in the capital Colombo, produced an identity card, and named an officer she said was her husband. Indicating her bump, she told the guards she was due at the army clinic for a check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If This is Called Peace... | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

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