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...best serves the long-term interests of all concerned. We are currently swamping the labor markets of the working poor, minorities, the unskilled and legal immigrants with millions of illegal workers who want to make a better life. Legal Americans deserve our compassion as well. Matthew Bracken, Orange Park, Florida...
...Walk Away Plan sounded pretty good to Paula Bond. A bookkeeper at a battered Florida construction company, she first heard about the plan on TV at 3 a.m., not long after her salary was cut in February by $100 a week and she realized she couldn't keep making her mortgage payments. Selling the house was hardly an option. Properties on her block were going for $135,000; two years ago, she'd paid $188,000. She had phoned her bank and tried to renegotiate the terms of her loan. "Every time I called," she says, "they gave me another...
...Denmark. For example, Kijiji uses software developed at eBay to identify nudity in photos in order to cut down on inappropriate postings. It's also available in the local language for more of its foreign language sites than Craigslist and even accepts Spanish listings in parts of South Florida and Texas...
...Journey's die-hard fans - and there are plenty - have embraced Pineda with open arms. When Nell, who did not want to reveal her real name, started an Arnel Pineda fan site in December, the Florida-based web developer says angry Journey fans left death threats on her answering machine. The band's traditional fanbase is mostly white and American, and some are upset that Pineda is neither. "Journey is supposed to be an all-American band," one fan wrote in an online forum...
...will provide on-site support for more than 8,000 schools by 2010, improving access to healthy food and increasing opportunities for students to exercise. Last year 16 states supported policies to improve physical-education classes, which have been cut back severely in recent years, and just this month Florida governor Charlie Crist signed a bill requiring physical-education programs in the state's elementary schools. Denver has renovated more than 50 school playgrounds, significantly increasing children's activity levels, and towns and cities elsewhere have launched similar efforts to make it easier for kids to be active...