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...With both supply and demand for illegal workers still going strong, this Administration will have a difficult time carrying out any wide-scale crackdown, even if the country were prepared to stomach many more family separations like Arellano's (Pew estimates that 3.1 million U.S. citizen children live in a household in which either the head of the family or their spouse is here illegally...
...Heathrow activists demanded. And there's little sign of that happening, as air passenger numbers rose 6.3% globally through the first half of 2007. So, expect similar protests in the future. The activists at Heathrow threw out a moral challenge to those well-off on a global scale (anyone who can afford a JetBlue ticket) to stop flying in order to save the poor from the effects of climate change. It's not quite that simple, but until technology and policy catch up - which still seems a long way off - carbon emissions will only slow if consumers choose...
...mirror America. Twenty-six of the 45 students are boys; only two are black. (A total of 16 are minorities.) The school is unlikely ever to represent girls and African Americans proportionately because of a reality about IQ tests: more boys score at the high end of the IQ scale (and, it should be said, more score at the low end; girls' IQ variance is smaller). And for reasons that no one understands, African Americans' IQ scores have tended to cluster about a standard deviation below the average--evidence for some that the tests themselves are biased...
Fear remained palpable in Lima and towns closer to the epicenter more than 12 hours after the earthquake hit. There have been more than 150 aftershocks, some measuring close to a magnitude 6 on the Richter scale. "I have not been able to reach my sister, who lives in a dangerous area," said Esther Tapia, a Lima homemaker who was heading to a shantytown on Lima's outskirts to check on relatives. "What would happen if these [earthquakes] continue...
...Designed like a sandbag fortress rising over a garden of inert land mines, armored vehicles and the occasional palm tree, the museum contains a display of Hizballah weapons and tactics, including the scale recreation of a front-line bunker, complete with computer workstation, prayer rug and dish rack. Throw in a lava lamp and it could be a college dorm room...