SisWHY: That brain drain is much higher than expected. I believe the only way to lower it is by providing professional opportunities when young people complete their studies. I've seen letters to the editor and heard people complain about the lack of jobs when kids leave school. I'm surprised that the Indian statistics are so low. Seems every other doctor and dentist, not to mention stationery store owner, in NYC is from the subcontinent. Indeed, Florida is a bigger mess than I thought it would be. Hope Mangoites down there are okay.
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Finally the Dems are getting some cojones to stand up to Bush and his crooked cronies. How unconscionable he can be in his reverse Robin Hood role.

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"President Bush finally realized that his Gulf Coast wage cut was a bad idea that hurt the workers and their families affected by Katrina," said Miller. "But let me be clear - the President is backing down today only because he had no other choice.

"The President's wage cut was just another example of his incompetence as a leader in a time of crisis and of his constant need reward the private agenda's of his special special-interest friends rather than attend to the needs of all the people affected by this storm."
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Bound and shackled, dozens of white descendants of European slaveowners slowly marched through Barbados' capital Wednesday in a symbolic gesture of apology for slavery.

Curious motorists slowed down and peered out their windows as some 50 white men and women wound through Bridgetown under a blazing sun, some with chains around their wrists and ankles and wooden yokes around their necks.







One one coco full basket.