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...illegally. But Austria has prospered despite the influx. Through most of the 1980s, it boasted the lowest unemployment rate in Europe outside tiny Luxembourg. Since the immigrants come mostly from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, they "aren't greatly different in cultural and religious terms" from native Austrians, says political scientist Anton Pelinka. That they should nevertheless encounter such strong resentment, he says, "doesn't bode well for a united Europe...
...Treblinka. But Buchanan has also claimed that diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody, much less 850,000 people at Treblinka; that the U.S. should not have apologized to France for protecting Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie; and that Arthur Rudolph, the ex-Nazi rocket scientist forced to leave the U.S. after the Justice Department accused him of brutalizing slave laborers at a Nazi rocket factory, was "railroaded...
...list of tragic American Dreamers, people who martyred themselves for visions that stubbornly refused realization while they lived -- one thinks of rocket scientist Robert Goddard and car manufacturer Preston Tucker -- it seems we must now add the name of Benjamin Siegel. His great notion was the reinvention of Las Vegas, converting it from a sleepy cow town into a gaudy pleasure dome where everything that was illicit elsewhere in the puritanical U.S. of a half-century ago was openly available on a gloriously legal basis...
...simply a struggle between believers and nonbelievers, or between liberals and conservatives. The conflict is far more subtle, a product of centuries of legal evolution. It gets to the very heart of America's identity, for it is about a clashing of rights and responsibilities: Should Christian Scientist parents be allowed, on religious grounds, to reject medical treatment for a dying child? Should Mormon parents be allowed to claim a tax deduction for the money they spend sending their children out as missionaries? Like so many other issues -- abortion, the right to die, the right to bear arms -- the issue...
...fantastic woman who's accomplished a great deal," says Joseph D. Brain, Drinker professor of environmental physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. "She's a really spectacular scientist, and a great role model...