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Boeing's unveiling of the new 787 Dreamliner, auspiciously timed for 7/8/07, drew a crowd of 15,000 employees and their guests to Boeing's Everett, Wash., facility in a manner fitting for what is the most successful, fuel-efficient commercial jetliner in history. To date, 47 carriers have ordered 677 of the planes. Carbon fiber composites make up 50% of the plane's material by weight (compared with only 12% in Boeing's last released jetliner, the 777), enabling Boeing to offer cost savings and more passenger comfort to airlines. But now that the celebrating is over, Boeing will...
...carriers and supplier-partners culminated in Sunday's event, as former TV news anchor Tom Brokaw hosted the 787 Dreamliner premiere from a stage set up in Boeing's 40-36 Building, a sprawling 10-sq. acre facility north of Seattle. In addition to the 15,000 gathered in Everett (wearing badges that read "Success Runs in the Family"), about 25,000 Boeing employees and retirees also watched the broadcast from the Seattle Seahawks' 50,000-seat stadium rented for the occasion. The event, broadcast to 45 countries in nine languages, had all the trappings of a network media event...
...Kate Lefko-Everett is a Cape Town-based researcher for the South African Migration Project points out another reason that local xenophobia is so galling to other Africans. "During apartheid, there were so many South African leaders who lived in exile, political refugees who were treated as heroes in foreign countries," she explains. "Those countries are asking: 'And now you treat us like this...
...Motherwell police station, Capt. Andre Beetge says the protection of Somalis is a priority. But he also reflects what Lefko-Everett says is widespread official ambivalence about refugees. "Immigrants should expect a little difficulty from locals," says Capt. Beetge. "And maybe they should weigh up what they are experiencing in their own country with what they are experiencing here. If it really is that bad here, why don't they go back...
...nation united in its diversity may remain more an aspiration than a reality. In today's South Africa, whites, coloreds and blacks still segregate themselves into single-race neighborhoods - not by law, but consent and economic circumstance. "It's the continuation of the apartheid mindset," says Lefko-Everett. And apartheid's saddest legacy turns out to be this: it didn't just make racists out of whites...