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What will differentiate this line, according to Lagerfeld, is its real-world attitude. "It's much tougher than Chanel and more about the way people dress in everyday life," he says...
...research labs in China and elsewhere is not just luring natives back to their homeland. It is also retaining promising students who might once have gone to the U.S. to study. That matters because keeping U.S. universities the best in the world depends on luring the very best students. Tougher visa regulations put in place after 9/11 don't help either. Chu has plenty of horror stories. One former student went home to Taiwan for a brief vacation. When he applied for his re-entry visa, he said he was studying atomic physics. Even though that subject had nothing...
...Texas' demographics and history. Democratic Gov. Ann Richards and her Republican successor Gov. George W. Bush each spoke softly on the issue of illegal immigration, supporting access to the state's public schools for the children of illegals working in Texas. But just as the President is now talking tougher about securing the border, calls for more federal surveillance and manpower assistance from border residents, including Hispanic officeholders, are growing...
...parties take his government's measure. But the grace period may well be brief. Harper will probably have little trouble winning passage of his clean-government accountability act, the first of five major campaign pledges--the others being a cut in the gst, guarantees on health-care waiting times, tougher measures on crime, and direct cash payments to families for child care. But in the back of his mind, no doubt, is the fact that minority Parliaments in Canada rarely last more than two years...
...into the U.S. The heightened border security has not, however, stopped undocumented Mexicans from getting in. The Pew Hispanic Center found that even though immigration is down since its peak in 2000, about 485,000 undocumented Mexicans were still crossing each year from 2000 to '04. In fact, the tougher restrictions have been a boon for the smugglers who sneak human traffic across the border. When Mario Coria's half-brother Fernando went to the U.S. in 1985, the trip from Tuxpan cost $200. Now the same trip costs more than...