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...returning to Americus in 1976, the couple founded Habitat for Humanity, which with the help of volunteers and future occupants has built nearly 1.5 million no-interest homes worldwide. Fuller separated from Habitat in 2005, forming the similarly tasked Fuller Center for Housing...
...Israel A HAWK'S RACE TO LOSE In the run-up to parliamentary elections on Feb. 10, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (above, center) is widely considered the favorite to become Israel's next Prime Minister. Most polls put Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party ahead of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's ruling Kadima Party and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Labor Party, by several seats. Following the war in Gaza, national security has become the campaign's central issue, and Netanyahu has accused his rivals of prematurely ending the offensive against Hamas...
...What They're Banning in Tuscany: In what has been dubbed "culinary racism," the city council of Lucca, in Italy's Tuscany region, has passed rules denying licenses to new non-Italian restaurants in the town center. Food items such as kebabs, Peking duck and even McDonald's meals are out. City leaders say the change is meant only to safeguard Lucca's traditional cultural identity...
...been furloughed since Nov. 14, when the steel factory idled two of its blast furnaces. The government estimates that companies laid off about 200,000 workers in December and January, but that's probably an understatement. Yevgeny Gontmakher, an economist who heads the Russian Academy of Sciences' Social Studies Center, expects that Russia's official unemployment rate, long below 6%, will be twice that level...
...wasn't meant to turn out this way. The new Russia was supposed to replace poverty, money worries and grumbling mothers with places like Rusfinance, a Moscow call center that transports you from the gritty streets and auto-parts stores into an indoor world of cheery beige furnishings, swirling red-and-gold patterns on the walls and easy credit. Here, 450 people--mainly women in their 20s--sit side by side in booths and field calls from Russians asking to borrow money. Most of the time, the answer is a resounding yes. Owned by the French bank Soci?...