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...total, in the four states where there have been two-party contests - Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina - 1,174,227 Democrats have turned out to vote compared to 827,315 Republicans, a ratio of 7 to 5. As of now, the level of primary participation is nearing the levels seen in general elections...
Imagine most of baseball's Latin American sluggers returning home en masse to miss a full month of games midway through a regular season, and you'll get some idea of what European pro soccer is currently experiencing. Depleted squads; the general level of play noticeably weakened; and standings shaken up as teams surge or falter as a result of the exodus of so many star performers. The cause of the exodus? The African Cup of Nations, a biennial tournament that pitches the continent's 16 top national teams against one another in a mini-World Cup whose quality...
...about Chinese culture since his boyhood, and from the moment of his arrival as a 25-year-old he became an assiduous student of it. He openly despised the kind of expatriates who "seldom meet a normal Hongkonger" and instead sided with and befriended Chinese at the grass-roots level. For the next 40 years, his work and life were peopled with laborers, police constables and villagers of Hong Kong's rural New Territories region, which he explored obsessively, resided in and became a leading authority...
...choose from as now. From the realistic re-creations of shells, branches, antlers and fossils in objects to the fanciful riffs on woodland motifs that reimagine seat cushions as boulders and coffee tables as tree trunks, designers are taking the "going green" ethos to a whole new aesthetic level. And consumers are happily going along...
...since March 2003.) Charles Shipman, who runs refugee programs for the state of Arizona, says growing U.S. cities like Phoenix can handle more Iraqi refugees than are coming in at the moment. Housing in Phoenix is relatively inexpensive, says Shipman, and the local job market can still absorb entry-level workers. Of the 600 refugees who pass annually through the IRC's Phoenix program, 91% find jobs and go off state and federal subsidies within five months of arrival...