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...ALEXIA SALVATIERRA, quoting a 2nd century Christian theologian to explain why activist Elvira Arellano's Aug. 20 deportation to Tijuana would inspire a renewed fight for immigration reform. Arellano had found sanctuary in a Chicago church for a year in defiance of a deportation order...
...ride out union protests against controversial measures being prepared. Meanwhile, the media savvy Sarkozy knows from his first 100 days (not to mention his mega-hyped vacation) that the French public can't get enough coverage of its young, modern leader - a fascination he'll doubtless exploit to fully explain and sell reform he expects to provoke resistance. Should such exposure allow Sarkozy to push through reform that French governments have backed away from for over a decade, he'll doubtless consider any unflattering flab of his own exposed in that process as a price worth paying to move France...
...there aren't enough yuppies in this notoriously working class city to explain where all the babies are coming from. In the first quarter of 2007, 6,479 babies were born in the German capital, up from 6,169 the same quarter last year. In fact, births have been on the rise at least since the first quarter of 2001, when 5,936 babies were born...
...honor roll of experts interview in the film - sages like David Suzuki and unexpected wonks like former CIA director James Woosley - deliver bite-size, sometimes haunting bits of wisdom. The best is in the first quarter of the film, when lesser-known environmentalists like Paul Hawker and Janine Bonyus explain why it seems to be instinctual for human beings to treat nature like garbage. (Short answer: we've come to believe that technology has made us separate from and superior to the planet that still sustains every aspect of our lives...
Enter the world of marketing. The power of name recognition helps explain the multibillion-dollar business of plastering brand names on everything from ballpoint pens to NASCAR racers as well as the thriving cottage industry of reviving brands that have fallen out of mainstream use, like Ovaltine chocolate malt and Westinghouse televisions. "We tend to believe, If I've heard of [a product] before, it's probably because it's popular, and popular things are good," says Dan Goldstein, an assistant professor of marketing at London Business School...