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The government's policy of designating Somalis like Olow, Ahmed and Hassan as illegal immigrants places them in a precarious situation. Every day they stay in the country, they accumulate a fee of $6 a day. According to Bhattarai, only a handful of families in Nepal have been accepted through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somali Refugees in Nepal: Stuck in the Waiting Room | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

This critic may be concerned with the inconvenience of making multiple trips to the sometimes anxiety-inducing entrée line, the danger of carrying hot plates, or may just be lazy—all of which were mentioned as turn-offs by a handful of tray-advocates in Annenberg...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay | Title: BREAKING NEWS: Freshmen Discover Trayless Initiatives | 11/7/2009 | See Source »

By the late 1960s, the stock exchange was upgrading to electronic boards, leaving them little use for ticker tape. The parades dwindled: there was only a handful in the 1970s and 1980s. The 1990s saw a brief resurgence: among the highlights was the 1998 fete honoring John Glenn for becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticker-Tape Parades | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

The spat might be dismissed as a silly diplomatic row, but fatal battles between Thailand and Cambodia have been fought over other seemingly minor issues. Relations between the two neighbors have deteriorated markedly since last year because of a territorial dispute surrounding an ancient temple complex on their border. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latest Pawn in the Thai-Cambodian Spat? Thaksin | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

"In spite of negative media attention, the [North Korean] tourism market shows annual, if slow, growth," says Koryo's general manager Simon Cockerell, who points out that while thousands of tourists visit Beijing daily, a mere handful pay a trip to Pyongyang, just 90 minutes by air from the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacationing in Lovely... North Korea? | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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