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...Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing zero immigration policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress Europe, they won't come...
...Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing ?zero immigration? policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress Europe, they won't come...
Tell that to the residents of the Aida refugee camp. Last week they became the shooting range in a battle between Israeli soldiers manning the fortress around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and Palestinian gunmen from the Tanzim militia. The battle was fought with machine guns and helicopter-launched missiles. But it also showed that the Israeli army believes it is fighting with one hand tied behind its back...
...other star of the show was a stunning little machine called the G4 CUBE, a Power Mac G4 that Apple's engineers have somehow managed to squeeze into a gleaming 8-in. crystalline cube that wouldn't look out of place in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. Its vertical-loading DVD drive alone is enough to give a technophile goose pimples. Brrrr...
...teacher) and that spending, at about $8,000 per pupil, rivals that of some of Wellston's more affluent neighboring districts. But my father has become convinced that all these efforts are never going to be enough. He believes what students in Wellston need is nothing less than a "fortress," a boarding "academy" that can insulate them from their own community. He's got it all mapped out: during the day about 200 students would attend Wellston's schools, but in the evening they would be tutored in reading, writing and math before going on to learn about etiquette...