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Help Wanted as Immigration Faces Overhaul

March 27, 2006
Some landscapers, restaurants and amusement parks insist that affluent Americans no longer want to do certain types of jobs, tedious seasonal work that was once the province of high school and college students – despite increasing wages for low-skilled work and finder fees. Employers run ads to...

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Jose Fernandez Santillan

The Albatross: Flying High, Again...

March 16, 2009
Industrialized fishing has contributed to the deaths of thousands of majestic seabirds each year, as many get caught on fishing hooks and lines. This includes species of the albatross, many at risk for extinction. The albatross has the longest wingspan of any flying bird, giving it the ability to...

North Korea Pursuing More Practical Line

October 28, 2003
North Korea's government has become more and more practical in its dealings with the US, says this Korea Herald article. "Pyongyang has become more practical under the Kim Jong-il regime," said one South Korean scholar. "It recognizes the nuclear deadlock would only worsen its...

China and the EU: Building a Reciprocal Relationship

January 21, 2011
A three-nation European tour by the Chinese vice-premier underscores China’s critical role for the continent’s economy. “China, in short, has become Europe's rescuer,” writes Doug Saunders for the Globe and Mail. China easily directs its reserves to buy up bonds from countries in shaky...

Will Fight for Oil

March 1, 2006
The Bush administration has been sensitive to charges that oil was a central determinant of Iraq war policy. Maintaining that oil was unrelated to US action in Iraq is odd, suggests veteran television journalist Ted Koppel, considering that protecting the flow of Persian Gulf oil has been central...

“Loss and Damage”: Climate Change’s Latest Byword

September 7, 2015
Less developed countries use just a fraction of the world’s fossil fuels and advocates are making plans to be “compensated for loss and damage from extreme events by rich [countries] mostly responsible for greenhouse gas-caused climate change,” writes Renee Juliene Karunungan for the Asia Sentinel...

In Washington's Good Books?

October 8, 2004
Syria's porous border with Iraq, continuing presence in Lebanon, and harboring of Palestinian groups have all poisoned US-Syrian relations. A recent visit to Damascus by US Assistant Secretary of State Willam Burns may have led to a breakthrough in several diplomatic impasses. "Certainly...
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