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Some migrations are forced at gunpoint. Others are set in motion by the global economy. Money is dynamite, and it can scatter people better than mortar fire. The world is well into the second Industrial Revolution, in which the developed nations have gone dotcom and service. Smokestack industry and light manufacturing have moved to the Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans...
...second near-death experience occurred more recently when three teenagers held him up at gunpoint, Chopra said...
...where was the BMF when, in Providence, R.I., a black police officer was shot killed by his fellow police officers? When two white police officers arrived at the scene of an attempted robbery, they found the suspect being detained at gunpoint by the black officer. The white officers panicked at the sight of a black man with a gun and shot the black officer four times, including a fatal shot to the head...
...Cambridge resident was mugged at gunpoint Saturday night near Central Square in an attack that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) said is probably linked to two assaults against students earlier this week. The victim of Saturday's attack was unharmed...
...final robbery of the evening occurred in Allston around 8:30 p.m., when a male undergraduate walking between Kresge Hall and MacArthur Hall at the Business School was robbed also at gunpoint. He was robbed of 10 English pounds...