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...means certain that they will deter migrants. Sangatte itself is proof of how attractive passage to the U.K. remains. The Sangatte center opened in September 1999 to cope with Kosovar refugees from the Yugoslav war, who had been sleeping out in Calais parks and trying to stow away on cross-Channel ferries. Since then, the huge warehouse has become a staging post on the international smuggling route to the U.K. A staggering 60,000 people have passed through Sangatte over the past three years. Despite nightly news footage of people clambering aboard Channel Tunnel trains - and vigorous protests from...
...that left some stadiums half-empty, fans with tickets found themselves embraced by communities that yearned to make their stay ever more comfortable. Blue-haired ladies who learned English soon after World War II were wheeled out to meet groggy football supporters at the airport. Train conductors helped Mexicans stow their oversized sombreros, and stadium attendants showed visitors how to use their cell phones to access the Internet. "Not once did I feel lost," says Juan Pablo Mollina, an architect from Mexico City. "I was surprised?there were so many guides who spoke Spanish?and always people ready to help...
...production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner products. And just last week, BP and Ford donated $20 million to Princeton University to develop a technique called carbon sequestration, which could potentially stow carbon emissions safely within the earth...
...better times, college life was filled with endearing letters home for doting Mrs. Smiths to stow away for posterity. And even the most brutish dolt could string together a few paragraphs of mannerly prose. Now, the FAS server crashes and chaos ensues. The inconvenience caused by these infrequent lapses is not the most serious consequence of Harvard's electronic fetish--students' writing, manners, and thinking suffer as well. Would that every day were like last Friday...
...Palm Portable keyboard, a $99 add-on that shipped at the same time. The full-size keyboard--one of two versions will fit any Palm--cleverly folds up into a package that's the same pocket size as the computer itself. It finally allows me to stow that plastic stylus and type like a man. In fact, I pecked out most of this column on the 6:24 Long Island Rail Road train home, easily balancing Palm and keyboard in my lap. And I only occasionally elbowed the sumo wrestler squished in next...