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...would guess, for example, that the states with the world's highest ratio of women to men in higher education are in the gulf. In Kuwait, women were elected to parliament for the first time this year. And women have been appointed to important ministerial posts in neighboring countries; Jordan has four women in its Cabinet, including Hala Latouf, the Minister for Social Development. There are women judges, too, in Palestine, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates - something that would have been hard to imagine a generation ago. And women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the economy...
...bailout, he said, but a demand for fairness. "When President Clinton was in office, California got back 94 cents on the dollar from the Federal Government. Today, we only get 78 cents back. But in the meantime, Texas gets 94 cents, Pennsylvania gets $1.07," he said. "And guess what New Mexico gets? $2.03." Without the additional federal money, Schwarzenegger said, he will again propose the elimination of CalWorks, the state's welfare-to-work program, as well as in-home services for the disabled and elderly. (See why the U.S. can't afford to let California fail...
...when a Somali community leader took her in off the street a few weeks ago and she delivered the baby in a local clinic. She has eight other children who remain in Somalia with her mother. And as for what comes next: neither Maalim nor anyone around her can guess...
...George Washington is] a really active team, a lot of athletes,” Casey said. “I just tried to step it up, and I guess I got good results...
Case in point: the rule that all passengers must be frisked. The alleged attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, reportedly hid the explosives in his underwear - but passengers have reported that security officers who patted them down never went near their skivvies. "My guess is, if they were doing the truly intrusive pat-down designed to find even three ounces of explosives," says Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, "we probably would have heard cries of protest from travelers." The lack of furor suggests the pat-downs were probably annoying and not much...