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...Texas, meanwhile, Governor Rick Perry wasn't taking any chances after the traffic nightmares that the state suffered during Hurricane Rita last year. This week he launched a four-day hurricane preparedness exercise - the largest ever in the state - and announced an expansion of the 211 evacuation hotline to help coastal residents without transportation or with special needs. Emergency responders are playing out preparations for a category 5 storm, with about 100 cities and counties participating. During the exercise, which lasts until Friday, officials in the five hurricane evacuation zones will practice responding to an evacuation call. Part...
...French National Assembly this week over a new, tougher law on immigration. In the run-up to last month's regional elections in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke approvingly of more rigorous citizenship tests. "Citizenship cannot just be nodded through," she said. In the Netherlands, right-wing Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stands a very good chance of winning this month's vote for party leader among members of the VVD party, which is part of the governing coalition. Her take-no-prisoners approach to stanching immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic...
...French National Assembly this week over a new, tougher law on immigration. In the run-up to last month's regional elections in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke approvingly of more rigorous citizenship tests. "Citizenship cannot just be nodded through," she said. In the Netherlands, right-wing Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stands a very good chance of winning this month's vote for party leader among members of the vvd party, which is part of the governing coalition. Her take-no-prisoners approach to stanching immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic...
...Taliban in Afghanistan was the right way to go. The U.S. should have put pressure on all countries in which Islamic terrorism has training camps and madrasahs, where the young are brainwashed into a culture of blind hate. Iraq was, tragically, the wrong place to go to war. Rita Putatunda Pune, India Back to Basics Re "The new India, and the old one" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry, that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached...
...partnership between the ski industry and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Schendler feels he has helped change the culture of skiing, at least at ASC. "We've turned this place into a lab for addressing climate change," he says. "Aspen is a lever that can change the world." --By Rita Healy/Denver...