Muslims the new Japanese?

In New York, a woman named Holly Yasui has decided to stand up for a group of Muslims that were unjustly arrested simply because of their ethnicity. When they filed for their rights, the judges refused to listen to them. Ms. Yasui said that it seems that the I.N.S. is searching people simply based on their race or ethnic group. She feels this is unfair and wants to prevent atrocities from occurring. She is a descendant of Japanese immigrants that were also captured because of their nationality. She does not want this to repeat itself and hopes to have justice done for these people. One of the judges stated that “the executive is free to single out ‘nationals of a particular country.’ ” He claimed that even though it was harsh that they were looking to people of Muslim background because of such little knowledge of the jijackers on September 11th, he said it was “so irrational or outrageous as to warrant judicial intrusion into an area in which courts have little experience and less expertise.”

During the period after World War II, many Japanese were detained because of suspicion that they might have connections with the Japanese government. However, not only were Japanese immigrants and their descendants were not the only ones imprisoned, but also Italian-Americans, German Americans and other European Americans were unfairly imprisoned or relocated by the United States government. They were stripped of any personal belongings or travel rights they possessed.

M.R.I.'s are hitting the stage

On March 28, 2007 Denise Grady from the New York Times reported that the Health department is now trying to introduce the use of magnetic resonance imaging to test for breast cancer rather than the good old mammography. These machines' extreme sensitivity may work as an advantage or a disadvantage. Since the sensitivity is so great, M.R.I's may report small clumps of tissue as being a sign of breast cancer, when in reality it was nothing other than benign. This results with the patient having to return for various other tests wasting time and money for something that did not exist. However, the machine a bit of a better tool to use than mammography because it is capable of finding some signs that would have been missed by the previous form of testing. M.R.I's cost $1000 to $2000 more than mammograms do and would result with the use of it costing at least $1 billion. Still, before being allowed to have a breast M.R.I, there are certain guidelines that reccoment the testing to certain women. So far, it has diagnosed cancers at the same time a mammogram would have and not any time sooner. Nevertheless, there are high hopes for this tester.

In 1966 was the first time an apparatus dedicated to scanning women for breast cancer was available. Previous to this appliance, doctors used a standar x-ray machine that did not always give accurate results. Many wmen had the cancer and were not able to treat it before it got any worse because of not knowing. Hopefully, the use of the M.R.I. is nothing less than a great addition to the discovery and treatment of breast cancer.

Here we go again... (Iraq)

The Iraqi government on Saturday gave its first official reckoning of the truck bombing Tuesday in the northern city of Tal Afar, putting the death toll at 152 people, a number about double that in early reports.

The bombing, which left 347 other people in a poor Shiite neighborhood wounded, set off a wave of reprisals by Shiite policemen and others that left another 47 people dead and shattered the image of Tal Afar held up by American politicians last year as a model of a turbulent city turned peaceful.

This Iraqi war is looking more and more like Vietnam every day. It seems that the war is not against the Iraqi government, but instead against the Iraqi people themselves. It is similar to how in the Vietnam War men, women, and children were all targets.

25 Years After War, Wealth Changes Falklands

Twenty-five years ago, Argentina invaded this desolate group of British-controlled islands in the remote South Atlantic. After 11 weeks of fighting that took nearly 1,000 lives, British troops drove off the occupiers, allowing the islanders to continue with their eminently British way of life.


Today, the 2,955 people living here face a very different challenge: an invasion of outsiders, brought on by the affluence that has resulted from changes the British introduced in this overseas territory after their 1982 triumph.

Jobs like sheep-shearing and nursing are now filled by Chileans, while mixed-race people from the island of St. Helena take service jobs as waiters and store clerks. Just offshore, Korean, Taiwanese, Russian and Spanish ships with Indonesian, Filipino and Bangladeshi crews scoop up tons of squids, which have replaced wool and mutton as the territory’s principal export.

This is similar to the 20th century when there was a mass immigration from other countries to the United States and everyone was forced to cope and compete with all these foreigners for living space, job opportunities, and just life itself.