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High school, according to “Mean Girls”’s resident “outsider” Janis Ian, is complicated. It takes an expert to navigate the dangerous terrain of the high school cafeteria, where everyone from the “Nerdy Asians” to the “Unfriendly Black Hotties” is neatly divided into categories. Unspoken divisions reign supreme. While this may be an accurate portrayal of the high school social scene, Harvard students like to think they have progressed past this type of self-segregation. But in reality...
When Michal Kalwasinski, a young manager at a Vodafone outlet outside Dublin, goes home to the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw, he no longer bothers to look up his old friends. What would be the point? "They've all left for Britain," he says. With good reason. Polish migration expert Pawel Kaczmarczyk, of Warsaw's Center of Migration Research, says that for a typical Polish villager, "it has become no more difficult to get work in London than in Warsaw--it may even be easier...
...Some experts are beginning to question that lockout strategy. Herbert Brcker, a migration expert at Germany's Institute for Employment Research, says Germany missed out by blocking the first waves of immigrants. "This was a perfectly qualified generation of people from Poland that would have come here. Five years from now, we may only get what is left over. It may be too late." That's why Finland, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have decided to follow Britain and Ireland and open their markets to the eight new members from Eastern and Central Europe that joined...
...answers to these questions must begin by correcting a misapprehension: that the 19th century white man's greed for hides and virtual policy of genocide toward Native Americans led to the extermination of tens of millions of bison. Not exactly. As the late bison expert Dale Lott demonstrates in his acclaimed natural history American Bison (2002), the bison population often shrank dramatically in preindustrial times when the jet stream moved south and brought dry air to the plains. In 1841, before William Cody (the most famous of several men known as "Buffalo Bill") was even born, a freak cold snap...
...Willie, who is an expert on desegregation and controlled-choice, said that achieving diversity in the early years of school is particularly important because students tend to remain in the same school through eighth grade...