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Much of the border is still desperately poor. McAllen, Texas, at the heart of the fourth fastest-growing metro area in the U.S., is America's poorest city, the Commerce Department announced last month, with an average per capita income of $13,339 a year. But people on both sides are helping one another do the deals, cut the corners, take a region that was forever left behind and turn it into the New Frontier. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) prospectors saw in the opening of the border a chance to make a killing by taking factories that...
...Italy is now on course to become the Oldest Country. Stuck with a stubbornly low birthrate of 1.3 children per woman (compared with 2.7 in the 1960s), its society is ossifying, and the economy faces deep structural strains. The median age since 1995 has risen from 40.2 to 42.5. In the past 10 years, the percentage of retired Italians has jumped from 23% to 28%--the second highest percentage in the world after Japan--meaning that there are fewer than four workers for every retiree. The rapidly aging workforce has clipped productivity and jeopardized the solvency of the pension system...
...grown substantially. Though the exact relationship is complex because of a web of partnerships and holding companies, it is well established that Sinopec is a partner in Petrodar, which began to drill for oil in the Sudan early this year, with production expected to rise to 250,000 barrels per day by the end of the year. In the Petrodar venture, Sinopec is a partner with both the Sudanese government and the Chinese National Petroleum Company, the parent company of PetroChina. Sinopec has also announced its intent to purchase oil fields in the Sudan so it can further expand...
According to Alvarenga, their blog—which is located at immigration.campustap.com—has been hit by over 100 readers per...
...running in 1994. I think did about 89 districts the whole year. If I'd done it by private plane, I could have tripled the number of districts. And that's why we started using private planes, instead of going commercial and doing one event in one district per day, you can hit three districts in one day. And you can really knock 'em out doing what is important, and that is electing conservatives to Congress...