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Fifteen years after NAFTA was approved, some 3 million Mexicans have lost their farms or their farm jobs, 19 million more Mexicans have been added to the country's poverty rolls, and millions have had to leave their homeland and cross into the U.S. to try to lift their families from abject poverty. Of the 400,000 Mexican people who migrate to our country each year, 80% are from rural areas. NAFTA did have one safety valve in it, however. Corn and beans – which are economically and culturally the two most important Mexican crops – were protected for 15 years from a deluge of exports that would otherwise have come from subsidized corporate farms in the U.S. On Jan. 1, that protection expired, and the full corporate arrogance of NAFTA is about to come down on the remaining small farmers of Mexico.
C H A N D I G A R H S T O R I E S
Instead, the HUDA went to the Supreme Court against the order. However, we feel that the case must be withdrawn since the HUDA would get back lot more in terms of prime land if it chooses to allot land to the jhuggi dwellers outside the city, he stated. The members maintained that 205 acres of land, presently with jhuggi dwellers, had no litigation and there was no justification in not getting it vacated. There is an employee who has been in the HUDA office in Panchkula for nearly 20 years and knows everything about the city. There must be an inquiry into how he has managed a posting in the same office for so long, Mr Kinger said. As a solution to the problem, the Forum has demanded that a high-powered committee be appointed to consider and take a final decision in the matter of encroachments and look into how and why these encroachments have been allowed to mushroom in newly acquired areas as well.
500 homes for derelict Glasgow hospital site
The site of a vacant Victorian hospital which has lain derelict for more than a decade will see the development of more than 500 homes. Two major housebuilders are to tie up the acquisition of the 40-acre former Ruchill Hospital in Glasgow this month before embarking on the £50m development. The plans involve the restoration and refurbishment of some key listed buildings on the site of the former infectious diseases hospital. Gladedale and Bellway, the developers behind the plans, have billed it as one of the most significant new housing projects in Glasgow over the next five years. .
THE LECKEY FILE
Some chief executives would probably say they don't do a good enough job of reporting successes of their firms and overlook flaws of their competitors.
A positive story might even have a few CEOs scratching their heads as they try to figure what they're being set up for in the future.
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Doing time
There goes a van right now," Steed says, still leaning against the wall to see the gate. “I wonder where it's going."
‘Ingenious'
He wakes up every morning and, in the fog of sleep, expects to reach out and touch his wife. For a moment, he thinks he's going to open his eyes and see her face gazing back at him.
He forgets that she ever left him, that he ever started drinking again, that he ever got pulled over for driving under the influence.
So it's a bitter surprise when his eyes come to focus on a gray concrete wall with graffiti scrawled next to his pillow. A black circle surrounds a cross with the letters “AC."
“Instead of waking up with a woman, I wake up with the Aryan Circle," Steed says.
Gang symbols decorate a lot of cells at Lexington.
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