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...what is often overlooked is that the roots of the conflict may have more to do with ecology than ethnicity. To live on the poor and arid soil of the Sahel--just south of the Sahara--is to be mired in an eternal fight for water, food and shelter. The few pockets of good land have been the focus of intermittent conflict for decades between nomads (who tend to be Arabs) and settled farmers (who are both Arab and African). That competition is intensifying. The Sahara is advancing steadily south, smothering soil with sand. Rainfall has been declining...
Estimated number of homeless people who need shelter in New Orleans on any given night. There were 6,000 before Hurricane Katrina...
...butcher, referring to bourgeois-bohemians - a distinctive breed of middle-class Parisians who, in recent years, have moved to traditionally poorer areas of the city to take advantage of cheaper property. Besides Montmartre, favorite "bobo" haunts include the 10th Arrondissement where designer strollers navigate deftly around the tents that shelter the homeless along the St. Denis Canal. "Yes, people can roller-blade more easily now but there's little regard for the impact of these projects on local lives and businesses," adds Langlois. "It's areas like Montmartre that make Paris so diverse. We can't destroy our heritage just...
...butcher, referring to bourgeois-bohemians - a distinctive breed of middle-class Parisians who, in recent years, have moved to traditionally poorer areas of the city to take advantage of cheaper property. Besides Montmartre, favorite "bobo" haunts include the 10th Arrondissement where designer strollers navigate deftly around the tents that shelter the homeless along the St. Denis Canal. "Yes, people can roller-blade more easily now but there's little regard for the impact of these projects on local lives and businesses," adds Langlois. "It's areas like Montmartre that make Paris so diverse. We can't destroy our heritage just...
...there were no weapons in the town, and if there were no bomb makers in the town, and if there were no militants in the town, the IDF would likely leave it alone. It is always difficult in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to establish causality and blame, but offering shelter to criminals and those who murder civilians is an invitation for police intervention. Just as one who harbored a known murderer in any civilized country would be subject to search and imprisonment, such are some residents of Balata. Tahreer calls the terrorists and gunmen who the IDF kills...