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"The Burmese Come to Houston"
Houston has become a magnet for refugees from all over the world. Recently, an increasing number of Burmese families are seeking shelter in the Texas city. The families are severely limited in their financial support and struggle with the small window of time they have to acclimate to a new culture due to the "outdated" and "underfunded" U.S. resettlement program.
Tags: Burma; refuge; refugee; Houston Alliance Agency; U.S. resettlement program; Interfaith Ministries
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Stanford's disappearing game refuge.
The Stanford University foothills, which are major spots of academic and technological advancement today, are in fact lands dedicated by the state legislature as a state game refuge in 1927. The Weekly reveals how the California Department of Fish & Game abandoned management of the refuge in the early 1950s. Further, the story discusses why the refuge status remains relevant today, despite Fish & Game and Stanford's assertions that the refuge as an entity worth protection is obsolete.
Tags: ornithological; Junipero Serra Road; Stanford Dish Area; Don Feria
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A Range of Harsh Lessons
Westword reports that "schoolyard slurs, an incest charge and county social services shatter a black family's Kiowa refuge."
Tags: incest charges; social services; racism
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Arctic Oil
CBS News explores the pros and cons of drilling for oil in Alaska. The report is the first TV production that shows the North Slope of Alaska during the formidable polar winter, the prime time for the oil industry and "an ideal time to capture the key environmental and economic issues in the debate..." The segment reports on various possible scenarios considered for the energy industry and the wildlife in Alaska.
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Ground zero
Amicus examines how drilling and other activities of oil companies in Alaska have disturbed the people Nuiqsut, an Inupiat Eskimo village an Alaska's North Slope. "Big oil offered a village of Inupiat Eskimos jobs and economic boom. All it asked for in return was their way of life," the magazine reports. The story reveals that the environmental problems in Alaska include water quality changes, air pollution, land use conflicts, oil spills, increased traffic and noise, and disturbance to fish and wildlife species. The latter has forced Eskimos to give up some of their traditional food. For example, a huge arctic caribou's herd has moved away from the oil development area, and a bottom fish - an Eskimos' delicacy - now has elevated levels of toxics.
Tags: Alaska Wilderness League; Arctic Refuge; Trustees for Alaska; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Alaska Whaling Commission; drilling; politics; President Bush
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Digging in
Environmentalists and Republican Senator Mike Dewine support preserving Little Darby National Wildlife Refuge. But even with the Federal blessing, foes of the "Green Menace" are on their way to stage a heated display on Labor Day. Little Darby is but a single incidence of the increasingly violent sorties between environmentalists and groups now being called "anti-environmentalists." Organizations such as Sagebrush Rebellion and Wise Use are being peopled with the fringe of angry, violent, anti-government folks who'd steer hard right on anything, no matter what the facts are.
Tags: astroturf populists; politics; green movement; land use; refuge; Jarbridge Shovel Brigade; property rights; EPA; Chenoweth-Hage; American Land Rights Association; Paragon Powerhouse
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Uncertain Refuge
This report "examines the arbitrary nature of U.S. asylum policy and the reasons for it. The series found that some judges granted asylum so rarely that applicants, in effect, lost their cases the day they were assigned to one of those judges." In addition, the investigation found immigration courts varied in their lenience to immigrants. Consequently, the series provoked the Justice Department to establish a new rule which "limits the authority of district managers to detain asylum seekers".
Tags: The Justice Department; refugees; asylum; Freedom of Information Act; Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Stolen Refuge
The Boston Globe reports that "the presence of a broad range of people who had been granted residency in the United States despite serious, credible evidence of their involvement in human rights crimes. In addition to the detailed evidence compiled on each case, the series exposed weaknesses in procedures used by the US government to screen refugees; the broad failure by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to prosecute human rights cases; and the lack of adequate laws to prevent human rights abusers from entering the country..."
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Lost in America
The lives of runaway teens plays out, unnoticed, every day in the Twin Cities. Searching for freedom, they live in the cracks and shadows of bridges and riverbanks. But sometimes their rebellious quest turns tragic, leading to the ultimate loss.
Tags: juvenile; crime; murder; freedom; fleeing; homes; refuge
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American Dream
A young Bosnian with NBA hopes found an unlikely refuge -- a private school in Manhattan -- where a zealous fitness guru and a fallen playground legend drove him to excel. But first they almost drove him crazy. Sports Illustrated chronicles Vedad Osmanovic's unorthodox education at the Dwight School.