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...recently asked a friend of mine who operates a large farming business in California how many of his hundreds of employees are undocumented Mexican immigrants. Ninety percent, he told me. I literally gasped. And such numbers are not unique to agriculture or to California. Just as we are now dependent on cheap credit and cheap manufactured goods from China, we really can't afford to say no to cheap laborers from Mexico and Central America, and we need to admit that truth and make the system for absorbing them rational. At the upper end of the scale, it's crazily...
...week, Abdullah's campaign manager, Abdul Sattar Murad, told the Dubai-based National newspaper that his team would actively reject a result that had Karzai winning in the first round, saying the only way the incumbent could get 50% of the vote would be if he resorted to "50 percent of [the corruption] he has planned." Sattar said that Abdullah supporters would greet a Karzai victory with mass protests and that deadly riots could break out. It was both a warning and a threat. And in a volatile country like Afghanistan, it indicated an all too plausible scenario that could...
...symptoms of eye damage—blurred vision, holes in visual field, afterimages, and reddened perception. Most people didn’t own the proper solar filters for dealing with the situation. If you look straight at the sun during a partial eclipse—like the 75 percent one that occurred in Hong Kong on July 22—the sun’s rays can penetrate and photochemically change the makeup of your retina, potentially causing permanent damage...
...Percent of the Lower East Side's population that was Jewish in 1915 (the neighborhood's boundaries at that time stretched all the way up to 14th Street...
...from 2004-2007. During this time, Jay worked closely with the Crimson’s special teams unit. Under his leadership, Harvard’s power play was among the nation’s best, with the 2005-06 and 2006-07 squads killing penalties at 85.2 percent and 80.8 percent, respectively...