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Muslims and Christians buried you together. On your gravestone there sits a marble angel, her eyes turned toward the sky, as if awaiting an explanation, or else, consolation. But that solace won't come from above. It will come from Turkey, from the land you loved...
When the Italian cargo ship M.S.C. Napoli was critically damaged during a storm off Branscombe beach in southwestern England on Jan. 18, locals waited for the wave of pollution to land on their shore-line...
...problem is that many of the SEZs are on prime farming land. A few landowners are only too happy to sell up at a huge profit, but many poorer farmers and farm laborers are understandably opposed to having their livelihoods forcibly sold out from underneath them. Opposition to the SEZs is growing, and the consequences of that for the Congress, or any political party in India that hopes to win the rural vote - and given that a majority of Indians still live outside urban areas most parties do - could be particularly painful come polling...
...sizeable university population), more than one in four of Hem's nearly 20,000 residents is out of work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just 10% of its its land. Built in the late 1950s for laborers of the region's then-booming textile and steel mills, Hem's tenements and their residents were left stranded as international competition closed down those industries, killing the town's economic engine . While larger cities like Lille - with better schools and more dynamic...
...engineering that demographic commingling is risky at best. One tract of land reserved for better-off residents recruited from elsewhere sits aside a looming apartment block whose resident unemployment level Vercamer reports as 100%. Nearby, two desperately poor men on a bench nurse cans of beer; in the distance a young man shouts at Vercamer about a municipal job the mayor was to secure for him - "One of the local [drug] dealers, who wouldn't consider the pay cut involved in taking a real job", he confides. Would middle class families come to live here...