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Nov 7 2009, Marco Villa

This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else.

While Arabs are, of course, innately no different than other people, their region has fallen behind the rest of...

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A woman walks past a job centre, in west London, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Unemployment in Britain rose to 6.5 percent in the three months ending in January, with the number of people out of work reaching its highest in 12 years, the government said...