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...Britain alone received 76,000 asylum applications, up from 4,000 in 1988. An estimated 500,000 foreigners entered the E.U. illegally last year, five times the number in 1994. And as the demand to enter Europe has widened, so have the opportunities for traffickers who would profit from these masses on the move. Scores of immigrants now put their lives in the hands of feckless smugglers, with tragic results. Hundreds die crossing the Mediterranean into Spain each year; last week the corpses of 10 more North African immigrants washed up on Spain's southern shores...
...sexual acts. A detective who infiltrated NAMBLA several years ago, attending meetings and talking to members undercover, told CNN that NAMBLA members have been known to travel the world searching for young boys to have sex with. The group has also been accused of selling child pornography for profit...
...awards are given annualy by the Contemporary A Capella Society, a non-profit group founded in 1990 to promote a capella music. The society gives two sets of awards each year--to both professional and collegiate singing groups--and produces annual CD compilations featuring the year's best a capella recordings...
Politics Online President Phil Noble will discuss democracy in the age of the Internet, and will work with students on an interactive web-based project. Noble, who has written several articles and two books on the effect of the Internet on politics, works to help public affairs and non-profit enterprises use the Internet for its fundraising and communication capacities...
...major reason for Half's success--in November it hit No. 3 in the e-commerce rankings--is that Kopelman has replicated eBay's strengths. It is a "many-to-many" site, hooking up millions of users to buy and sell, which means it offers millions more trading (and profit) possibilities than Amazon or eToys, for instance. And like eBay, it is a "virtual" site. It doesn't have to shoulder the cost of acquiring, storing or shipping goods...