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...vocation director, at least 12 full- and part-time priests, and using pastors at regular masses to spread the word from the pulpit during homilies and announcements - or by simply walking up to strong lay members and asking if they have heard the call. "Many of the recently ordained foreign-born priests said that's precisely what led them to consider being priests," says James Accurso, a spokesman for the Chicago archdiocese...
...billion Fortune of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, the richest man in Britain according to the Sunday Times list of the country's wealthiest people. Born in India, Mittal has made his home in the U.K. since 1995 4 Number of the five richest people in Britain who were not born in the U.K.; the Duke of Westminster, with an estimated worth of $12 billion on the 2006 list, comes in fifth behind foreign-born residents such as Mittal and Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich...
...same country in one district, they have the right to be taught in their native tongue. "And that is a very powerful way to have children value their own cultures, rather than just being confronted with complete novelty," says Schleicher. The effects are subtle but promising. While unemployment among foreign-born citizens in Sweden is still high (around 10%), it's lower than in Germany, France or Belgium. And the proportion of immigrants enrolled in Swedish universities is higher than it was five years...
...Raymond Dassi, a Cameroonian who has lived in Bologna since 1996 and now heads its immigrant association, supports the mayor's tough line - but thinks his respect for law-abiding immigrants should go further, especially since Bologna needs foreign-born workers. "We are helping [Italians]. They can't see that," says Dassi, 35. "They need to democratize immigrants. They need to say, 'Let's see your ideas.'" Bologna's old and new residents are learning how to live together; next comes governing together...
...applying for licensing in greater numbers—especially considering that so many schools are engaged in defense-related research and thus theoretically are producing findings that should be subject to export controls. The report also noted that over 55 percent of engineering doctoral candidates in the U.S. are foreign-born. And while “their research helps strengthen the United States in the fastest-moving new technologies,” according to the report, the statistic also means that non-citizens are engaged in sensitive defense-related research. The auditors told Commerce and State Department officials...