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...Mexico. Over the past three years, the number of illegals streaming across the border has remained constant. They come from Mexico, where a third of the people live on $2 a day or less, and from other countries where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line" and "Gatekeeper." But they did not deter the illegal immigrants and their "coyote" smugglers for long. Instead, the crackdown has driven them into the Southwestern deserts, where much of the land...
...signs of internal schism, culminating in quietly defiant practices among moderates. "Many Southern Baptists view their affiliation with the church as primarily cultural, rather than religious," says Van Biema. This deep connection with the church, he explains, makes it much less likely that there will be a massive, formalized exodus. Only time will tell, of course, if the church's rightward shift will cause serious damage. For the moment, anyway, church leaders don't seem to be losing much sleep over any threatened departures; they're predicting that any churches that choose to leave over the vote will be immediately...
Graduates from the '50s, '60s, and even the '70s remember an exodus to Washington, D.C. every June, as newly-minted Harvard B.A.'s flocked to Capitol Hill and various government agencies. The College was a major conduit for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), while public figures as varied as John F. Kennedy '40 and Ralph Nader (Harvard Law, 1958) surrounded themselves with bright, hopeful recent graduates...
...Atkinson notes that a dedicated human resources department, which Mayer added to HUDS, is an advantage--but he questions why it failed to stem the exodus...
...remains found anywhere else. But when and why our ancestors first ventured away from the mother continent to take up residence in other parts of the world have been matters of debate. The conventional wisdom had long held that Homo erectus, the immediate ancestor of Homo sapiens, made the exodus about 1 million years ago, after developing relatively sophisticated stone tools that enabled him to gather food more efficiently during his wanderings...