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...scapegoats during the economic crisis. In the end the only thing that will get us out of this mess is to pull together legal and illegal, foreign worker and local. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs back home? In Mexico, perhaps with the drug cartels south of the border. Or why not with outfits like the pirates off the coast of Somalia? Let's not forget that a newly recruited extremist, or a new mercenary serving smugglers and drug lords, is much worse than an honest, hardworking immigrant looking for a better life. Pablo Cortes, Innsbruck...
...Nasheed says he is determined to secure liberal democracy in the Maldives. He sees the dissident struggle he helped wage in the Maldives, an orthodox Sunni nation, as a lightning rod for change in the Muslim world. But there are more pressing challenges at home. The Maldives boasts South Asia's highest GDP per capita, but the figure is inflated by the country's significant tourism revenues, which do not trickle down to everyone. Some 40% of the Maldives' population still earns less than $2 a day. And Maldivian youth are in the middle of a drug epidemic that, proportionate...
...Benedict is likely to be the last Pontiff who can say, "We remember," and mean it literally. As the church's center of gravity moves southward, he may also be one of the last European Popes, and Jewish relations tend to be low on the radar of African and South American bishops. (One of the latter recently said the Jews own the media.) When Benedict is gone, says Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, "not only may Judaism be off the agenda--it may face opposition. There's a clumsiness to how Benedict has dealt with some of these...
...Paris Different Strokes for Different Folks According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day as do Americans, and they get an hour more of sleep per night than do most South Koreans. The group's report used government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries to examine various social indicators--from education spending and fertility rates to leisure activities and "life satisfaction...
More than a third of Americans are obese--the highest rate in the report and nearly 10 times that of South Koreans...