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...just representative of the wave of immigration that has changed Ireland so deeply over the past decade. He is also a sign, he says, of how willing the Irish are to give people like him the opportunity to succeed. "There is no doubt Ireland is a land of a thousand welcomes," says Adebari...
What did it feel like to land on the moon? -Amor Detalla, Tagum, Philippines That question has been asked a thousand times. It is very difficult to convey to somebody who is not familiar with all of the training and preparations we went through, because that is what resulted in the feelings we had. We had to do everything we humanly could to guarantee success. It was a time of reflecting on the bigger meaning of things and being in awe of the visual situation and experience. There was a sense that our souls were linked with the entire world...
...least, the vendors are staying put. "All that has changed is that instead of having to pay a thousand rupees [$25] as bribe to MCD workers or cops, they now have to pay two thousand rupees" says Kishwar. "If the vendors were actually removed, it wouldn't serve anyone's purpose...
...five divisions of troops, and its aim would be to arrest the leaders of Hamas and destroy the Islamist militant group that seized control of the territory from U.S.-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's militia last June. A full-scale assault, say military strategists, might cause "over a thousand" Palestinian casualties and the loss of "a few hundred Israelis," but it would smash Hamas's military capability and seize an estimated 40 tons of explosives and tens of thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rockets and surface-to-air missiles...
...real job and too old to be babysat. Well-to-do families can afford summer camps and exotic learning opportunities, but they're a minority. Shirley Sagawa, an expert on youth policy and an architect of the AmeriCorps legislation, is proposing a Summer of Service. One hundred thousand students would volunteer for organizations like City Year, a national volunteering program and think tank, or Citizen Schools, which organizes after-school activities for middle schoolers, and run summer programs for younger students in exchange for a $500 college scholarship. Senators Christopher Dodd (Democrat, Conn.) and Thad Cochran (Republican, Miss.) and Representative...