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...Like many talented East Timorese who have grown disenchanted with the state of their homeland, human-rights lawyer Soares has decided to leave. He plans to pursue further studies in Australia next month. "Linguistic ability is becoming the priority in hiring, not judicial expertise," Soares says. "How can you build a competent civil society with limitations like these? I don't want to participate in such a system." But he's among the lucky few. Others like Avelina Gomes, whose children's school in Dili has been shuttered for a month because it is located...
...then, with the Gold Rush, by more than another order of magnitude in 1849 alone. And just as the Western exodus reached full speed, American cities became true modern metropolises. In 1800, New York had only 60,000 people, but by the middle of the century, the population had grown to half a million. Filling the cities was the first tsunami of immigrants--in particular the Irish, driven to the U.S. by the famine that began...
...buying a membership into a discriminating community of imbibers. A styrofoam cup from Dunkin’ Donuts screams proletariat, whereas a paper one from Starbucks announces to the world that you value the finer things in life—in this case, single origin, shade-grown coffee beans. Coffee, for you, is more than a crude caffeine boost...
...result in a lengthy prison sentence, few students will dare partake in such pranks in the future. This tradition deserves better than to be quashed by overzealous prosecutors and an unsympathetic judge. Even worse, by providing impetus for police at other colleges to crack down on traditions they have grown weary of, a conviction could have repercussions that extend beyond...
That ardor has led some devotees to bring GTD home. They use their electronic labelmakers (a must-have GTD tool) to make sense of linen closets, and they encourage their kids to break homework assignments into action steps. The clamor for new applications of GTD has grown so loud that Allen is at work on a third book, due in 2008. He says it will further explore GTD's principles and extend his theory to novel domains, including the home...