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...those visas expire, they're not being renewed under policies that seek to control more closely who gets into the U.S. The heightened border security has not, however, stopped undocumented Mexicans from getting in. The Pew Hispanic Center found that even though immigration is down since its peak in 2000, about 485,000 undocumented Mexicans were still crossing each year from 2000 to '04. In fact, the tougher restrictions have been a boon for the smugglers who sneak human traffic across the border. When Mario Coria's half-brother Fernando went to the U.S. in 1985, the trip from Tuxpan...
...Over the past two years, as high-rise fever spread across town, prices for the luxury apartments ballooned, fetching as much as $500 to $1,000 a square foot-or up to $1.5 million for a one-bedroom- at the peak. Buyers, mostly interested in flipping them for quick profits, eagerly anted up five-figure down payments, while developers planned more than 70 luxury towers holding a total of about 43,000 units on or near the Strip and downtown. But the intense competition for the city's limited supply of contractors sent construction costs skyrocketing 30% last year, just...
...rate and the overall number of abortions in the U.S. were on the decline. In 2000, the latest year for which Guttmacher has compiled statistics, the abortion rate was 21.3 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, which was the lowest since 1974 and down from a peak of 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 1980 and 1981. In 2000 a total of 1.31 million pregnancies ended in abortion, down from a high of 1.61 million in 1990. In Missouri the reductions in both figures in recent years have been even sharper...
...family income of military recruits with the income of all American families. They estimated that the mean income of military recruits was $41,141, almost the same as the national average of $41,994. But families with 18-24 year old children tend to have parents in their peak earning years. Comparing recruits to all families—including young families with low incomes and low expenses and old families with lower incomes and lower expenses—makes military recruits seem middle class. If we compare them with families headed by individuals in their 40s, the picture looks different...
...avian flu exploded at the end of 2003, more than 60 million birds have been killed by the virus or culled, while 22 people have been infected and 14 have died. But an ambitious and wide-ranging national response has drastically reduced both avian and human cases since the peak of the outbreak in the autumn of 2004. As H5N1 spreads to Europe's doorstep, learning from Thailand's methods could help other countries keep the disease under control. Step 1 is early detection. Many of Thailand's 250 million chickens live in small household farms scattered throughout the country...