Word: exoduses
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...Khmer Rouge troops are forcibly evacuating Phnom Penh's residents to the countryside?an exodus that will ultimately lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Monitoring events from Beijing, an elderly Mao Zedong asks visiting Vietnamese leader Le Duan whether he could ever mount such a merciless purge. Le Duan shakes his head. "No," marvels Mao. "We couldn't do it either...
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...Another concern is that India doesn't yet have the infrastructure needed to support all of its new malls. The daily exodus of shoppers from Delhi to Gurgaon's malls is already creating excruciating delays on the roads. But that's only the start of the trouble, says K.T. Ravindran, an urban-planning expert at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture. Because the electricity supply is unreliable in Gurgaon, says Ravindran, malls will have to run their own diesel-powered generators, which will cause significant pollution. And because the water supply is also shaky, he adds, many...
...apartments in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, Netanya or Ashdod. El Al flights to and from Europe now regularly feature in-flight ads, in French, for property in Israel. And according to Israeli press reports, tourist trips by French Jews - some clearly exploring immigration - have skyrocketed in recent years. The exodus reflects a genuine crisis in the French psyche. The national dream - in which membership in the secular republic is always more important than ethnic and religious identity - is waking up to an increasingly atomized reality. "A man like Chirac still lives in a republican world," says novelist Micha...
...plight of its starving, oppressed citizens. A bill recently passed by the lower house of the U.S. Congress authorizes Washington to spend millions of dollars promoting human rights in the North and helping thousands of North Korean refugees?legislation an insecure Pyongyang says is calculated to encourage a mass exodus, like those that helped topple communist regimes in Eastern Europe in 1989. "The U.S. seems to calculate that it can use the issue of defectors for bringing down [North Korea]," said an unnamed Foreign Ministry official earlier this month on a Pyongyang-sanctioned website. "This is ... as foolish...