Speaking of leadership
Kane County Chronicle - When is Congress going to develop the guts and leadership to tell the health-care lobbyists to go to blazes, and attack the cost of health-care paper-shuffling and probably decrease the cost by one-half? This is where the trouble is, not who has and ...
As English's dominance continues, linguists see few threats to its ...
Boston Online - The largest English-speaking nation in the world, the United States, has only about 20 percent of the world's English speakers. In Asia alone, an estimated 350 million people speak English, about the same as the combined English-speaking populations ...
Rebels bomb fuel facilities in Sri Lanka
Boston Online - On Sunday, Tiger aircraft dropped four bombs near Colombo, said an official at the defense ministry's media center, speaking on condition of anonymity due to policy. A soldier who witnessed the rebel attack said he saw a low-flying plane drop two ...
Bush takes another run at the border
Los Angeles Times - He saluted the diversity exemplified by Miami and the college, pointing out that more than half of its students were raised speaking a language other than English. "Over the years, America's ability to assimilate new immigrants has set us apart from ...
A memoir of gender change analyzes 'not fitting the picture'
Oregonian - Strictly speaking, he writes, there is no such thing as a "sex change operation"; there are rather lots of little surgeries that were developed for other reasons, such as for badly mutilated soldiers and infants and grown-ups whose bodies took an odd ...
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