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Washington, having heard the call, is creaking into action. President George W. Bush has made it a New Year's resolution to pass a guest-worker program, coupled with robust policing of the border. Under his proposal, undocumented workers already in the U.S. would register here, work for as many as six more years and then return to their native country to reapply if they want to continue living in the U.S. Immigrant advocates oppose the idea, saying that a full amnesty giving permanent legal status is the only practical way to deal with the estimated 11 million illegal aliens...
...less bad if they put a Dutch team in there. We're not willing to participate in that political game. We don't want to be mopping the floor when the faucet is still running." De Hoop Scheffer insists that even in the south, the Nato troops are "sufficiently robust" to deal with the security challenge, and that oef will continue to take the lead in fighting what he calls the "spoilers" from Taliban and al-Qaeda. "Of course, suicide bombers and roadside bombs and ieds [improvised explosive devices] are dangerous; this mission Nato is embarking upon carries risks," says...
...Bush pointedly never called for eliminating traditional conservative targets like the Department of Education. "Those efforts typically aren't successful, and they weren't at the core of animating this President's view of conservatism," Bolten said. Instead, Bush's "compassionate conservative" philosophy called for more limited but still robust government, including creating an office for faith-based initiatives and backing the No Child Left Behind...
...punishing for job seekers, and industries like media, airlines and autos won?t exactly brim with openings for many years to come. But things are looking up in other areas. Jobless claims this week hit their lowest level in six years. The unemployment rate has nudged below 5%-a robust reading-and the pace of corporate job cuts has been shrinking for six months...
...disaster research expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, is interviewing Hurricane Katrina survivors for a separate study. He wrote in an e-mail that it is important to hear directly from those who have been affected by a disaster. “Fifty years of robust disaster research has clearly demonstrated that the most rapid and sustainable recovery from a disaster occurs when the disaster victims themselves are directly involved in determining the recovery process,” he wrote.Kessler and his colleagues are using several tactics in their efforts to compile a representative sample...