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...IAMM is a gorgeous monument to the porous qualities of Islamic culture. With its elegant restaurant, storytelling sessions for children and calligraphy workshops, the museum is a neat expression of Islam Hadhari, or "civilizational Islam," Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's campaign to promote a moderate, modern version of the faith. Designed by Italian and Malaysian architects, the building is a bright, white and sleek place, with fountains, courtyards and a huge inverted gold-and-white dome hanging from the ceiling. "We wanted natural light, to make the place seem open and inviting, especially for non-Muslims," says de Guise...
INCOME 1 in 5 American children lives in poverty...
...raised alarm bells is the widespread carrying of weapons. Teachers report increases in the number of pupils bringing knives to school; students in turn claim to carry them for protection against their peers - the same reason they cite for joining the gangs that are proliferating in British cities. Children here are fearful and, according to a controversial 2007 UNICEF report, unhappier than their counterparts in other Western countries...
...social life. Besides jobs, it has offered the town's wealthier residents, as well as private farmers, additional income by buying up the sugar cane they cultivate on their own land holdings. And it has bolstered the middle class by providing some financial aid and scholarships to college-bound children of employees. Employees, current and former, fill many local elected offices; the town's main road is Sugarland Highway, and U.S. Sugar built Cane Field Stadium at Clewiston High...
...Sugar's announcement and told them Clewiston would disappear without the big company around. "His mom was like, 'Well, you need to start looking for homes here [in Broward County, to the south]. How are you going to be able to teach if you don't have any children to teach?' We were like, 'That's true...