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...more than 190,000 Indians?some 90% of them college educated?had arrived. About 13,000 Korean doctors, pharmacists and nurses got green cards. The Filipino population in the U.S. nearly quintupled, to 500,000; so many medical professionals emigrated that politicians in Manila warned of brain drain...
...been torn away. That was the good news. Half a mile away on that afternoon of Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina sent up 30-ft. storm surges, Jones, 53, knew a flood was raging in from the Bay of Biloxi because the water was rising rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi's coastal areas. If the drains didn't function, Jones knew, then inland neighborhoods like his would...
...says Jones, who usually dives off placid sites like Key West, Fla., and Cozumel, Mexico. Still, the rising tide was "real dark, murky and stinky." He plunged in--at one point stepping perilously into a deep hole left by a water meter the hurricane had torn out--found the drain, dived and cleared it. The waters began to recede, and Jones' neighborhood was spared the disaster that destroyed hundreds of other Biloxi homes and took scores of lives...
...Washington-area military hospitals. He has spent a lifetime devoted to what he perceives to be the best interests of the U.S. military. But unlike McCain, Murtha does not seem to believe that the war against Islamist terrorism is the highest national priority. He said Iraq threatened to drain resources from "procurement programs that ensure our military dominance." On the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he wondered if China were the real threat "down the road" and expressed dismay that "we only bought four or five ships this year...
...sure the nerds on the web have already translated it into multiple languages and counted the syllables looking for number patterns. With the shot of Ana Lucia’s gun Shannon officially bites the dust, er sand. Dammit, that’s $25 down the drain...