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COMPANY PROFILE The first to use 100% pure plant extracts, Clarins is now also known for its fragrances (Mugler, Azzaro and Clarins) and makeup. It is the No. 1 skin-care company in France and Europe. Courtin-Clarins calls Clarins a ?citizen of the world? company, financing arthritis research in more than 400 laboratories around the world and investing about $2.4 million a year in environmental and educational charities...
That's not the way Michael O'Reilly, mayor of Herndon, sees it. O'Reilly had been receiving increasing citizen complaints about crowds of up to 100 illegal immigrants congregating on a conspicuous corner in front of a 7-Eleven, where locals in need of day labor knew they could go and pick up a worker or two. O'Reilly created a day-labor center, which cleared the sidewalk and created jobs. No sooner did he do that, however, than Herndon resident George Taplin, a software engineer and Navy veteran who is the local leader of the Minutemen, began organizing...
...overseas jihadists normally wouldn't be good news--unless you've been in isolation for three years with no charges to fight. But when Jose Padilla learned last week that he had been indicted, "he was extremely happy," his attorney Andrew Patel told TIME. Padilla, a U.S. citizen who has been held as an "enemy combatant" by the military since mid-2002, will be transferred from a Navy brig to a federal prison and, more important, will get a trial date...
...process, and to use the legal system to take the most egregious offenders to court. Beijing has also opened the door to thousands of environmental NGOs that now openly tackle issues such as biodiversity protection, dam resettlement and public-health awareness. Nevertheless, the government remains wary of too much citizen activism, fearing calls for broader political reform. NGO leaders who tread into politically sensitive areas have been barred from further activity, prevented from leaving the country and even arrested...
...They will pressure me enough, and then I will blow somebody's head off." OVOD GOLAYEV, Muslim citizen of Karachayevsk, Russia, warning against his government's increasing surveillance of those who practice Islam outside of state-sanctioned mosques...