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...world's second-largest Muslim population. But in a nation of more than a billion, they are still a disadvantaged minority, and often the target of discrimination. Government surveys show that Muslims live shorter, poorer and unhealthier lives than Hindus and are often excluded from the better jobs. In urban areas, 40% of Muslims earn less than $6 a month, versus 22% of Hindus, and 30% of Muslims are illiterate, versus 19% of Hindus. Muslims make up 13% of the population, yet only 3% of government employees are Muslim. Of course, there are plenty of economic success stories among Muslims...
...power generators. There's not a bikini in sight on the city's sunny shoreline or a parked Porsche in the chic shopping district. Few Lebanese saw it coming. After this country's 15-year civil war ended in 1990, the nation transformed itself from a byword for urban violence into the nightlife capital of the Middle East. Elites who had fled during the war poured back in, pumping billions of dollars into the redevelopment of downtown Beirut. The rebranding of the city was so successful that with every condominium high-rise and every new shopping mall, the Lebanese began...
...gawking did serve a charitable purpose—a portion of the proceeds from every Lobsters match goes to Tenacity, a tennis and academic enrichment program for urban children...
...looked to Zidane, who grew up the son of a poor Algerian immigrant, to personify the possibility of social harmony. That's a tough call for a man all too aware that his own success does nothing to change the circumstances of the disenfranchised immigrant populations of France's urban ghettos whence he came, and where he continues to place his primary allegiance...
...other fronts, and the architect of its triumph was a national treasure known as Zizou. But the continuing debate over the Zidane head-butt is a reminder that the harmony represented by the makeup of the French soccer team bears little resemblance to daily life in the French urban ghetto - of which the riots of late 2005 served as the harshest reminder...