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...also arduous: Would-be immigrants are vetted first in their local communes by regular citizens, than at the canton level, before being approved by federal authorities. "I came here when I was seven. I got my Swiss passport only two years ago," says Kocakir Abdurrahman, 37, a Turkish taxi driver in Zurich. Abdurrahman said he had mailed his ballot last week, in his first vote as a Swiss citizen - for the Social Democrats. Explaining his choice, he says: "The SVP is racist...
...compensated for lost time or work in the service of medical advance, and that’s frustrating for people trying to do this research,” he added. Massachusetts law allows only for reimbursement of donors’ so-called receivable expenses, such as taxi fare or parking, but prohibits compensation for lost time at work. Without egg donors, the institute cannot conduct Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, also known as therapeutic cloning, a technique used to create stem cells aimed at treating specific diseases. Scientists believe experiments with these genetically engineered stem cells could lead to breakthroughs...
...done entails going downtown or across town, then chances are only one errand will be accomplished a day. Traffic in this busy capital of around 17 million people comes to a complete halt. Main roads and bridges are blocked and side streets are jammed with school buses and desperate taxi drivers hoping to get home in time...
...fish-out-of-water concept has been abused by enough sitcoms to make you dread seafood. But this series, about Raja, a Pakistani Muslim exchange student (Adhir Kalyan) who befriends his suburban host family's nerdy son (Dan Byrd), is fresh, good-hearted and totally winning. Like Taxi's Latka Gravas and Alf's title alien, the earnest Raja is a foreign power you'll surrender to from sheer laughter...
...started dragging the protesters into waiting vehicles. The frail Su Su Nway, who had only emerged from prison last year after serving seven months for reporting cases of forced labor to the U.N., was also manhandled by the mob of security forces but managed to escape in a taxi chauffeured by a sympathetic driver. "The junta is trying to create a very intimidating environment," Su Su Nway told TIME shortly before she evaded arrest. But the 34-year-old activist refuses to be intimidated. "People must stand up," she says, "and choose between freedom and oppression...