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OPINION: Making Britain fit for immigrants.
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24–The debate about immigration, which has come near to dominating the British general election of 2005, has been couched almost entirely in terms of the danger that too many immigrants pose to British society. Nobody seems inclined to dwell on a far bigger problem: the threat to the well-being and future prospects of immigrants from the worst elements of British society. The most serious social problems facing Great Britain today are almost entirely home grown: the yobbish behaviour, with its alcohol-fuelled menace and violence, that disfigures and pollutes the country’s city and town centres at the weekend, making them no-go zones for the law-abiding; the growth of a feckless and uneducated underclass in which aspiration has been extinguished and welfare benefits (supplemented by the proceeds of crime and the black economy) have become a lifestyle; and the general coarsening of our culture, encouraged by vulgar tabloid newspapers and broadcasters as ignorant as they are trendy, so that speaking distinctly, behaving properly, dressing well, showing ambition, desiring education, aspiring to do and being pushed to be better, caring for the well-being of others as well as taking care of yourself all are becoming lost causes in substantial segments of society and all are most prevalent not among newcomers or those of recent immigrant extraction but among the indigenous, white, native British. The problems of immigration and we concede it is not without problems pale into insignificance compared with Britains home-grown social problems, especially when the undoubted benefits of immigration are taken into account. Not just the economic benefits, which all mainstream politicians acknowledge. Immigrants work harder, place greater store by education, value family life more, get divorced less, have fewer children out of wedlock and tend to be law-abiding. If it was not for the immigrant injection of the.
Area firm spreads wings.
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Those really are kids racing Hot Wheels cars at the Kelly & Gazzero Post on the second Tuesday of every month. They may look like full-grown, middle-aged men, but when they’re around Hot Wheels the little kid in them comes out to play. Somehow their childhood fascination with the speed and detail packed into these tiny diecast cars has never left them. How they can stand there, riveted, for hours watching toy cars rolling down a track is a mystery to some, but nothing could make the members of the Rhode Island Hot Wheels Club happier than competing for the thrill of knowing theirs is the fastest little car on the block. These guys are serious; one swipes the wheels of his cars on his shirt back and forth to get rid of debris. Another leaves his cars in the pockets of his jeans to keep the wheels warm — they go faster that way, he says…
One would think that a meeting of the Rhode Island Hot Wheels Club would attract real kids. Boys and girls do come with their fathers, but the grown men outnumber the little ones by miles. For Hot Wheels enthusiasts of all ages, the club meetings have it all — vendors selling the latest Hot Wheels cars, a track to race them on, prizes for race winners, and a camaraderie that can only come from spending time with people sharing a similar passion. “When you come to our club, you come and have fun, and that’s what the hobby is supposed to be,” says Lombari, who is president of the club. “I’ve made a lot of good friends,” he says. “[The club] is a big part of who I am and what I do.
Environmental groups get together for Earth Day
Capital News 9 – Apr 24, 2005
“The Partnership for Onondaga Creek is working on the sewage treatment plant over by Midland, For NYPIRG we’ve been working on the bottle bill. Getting that expanded to include noncarbonated beverages, a well as working on mercury pollution,” NYPIRG representative Jen Perrone said. “We need to diversify our fuel source get off our reliance on foreign fossil fuels and polluting coal burning plants and start investing in our home grown energy sources such as wind, harnessing our wind for power, solar energy and hydro-power,” said Dereth Glance, with the Citizens Campaign for the Environment. Environmental activists encourage people living in the city to follow the University’s lead by telling their power provider they want to use at least a certain percentage of renewable energy in their homes.