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Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in time to vote in next November s presidential election.The application backlog is so large that Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Homeland Security Department, is months behind schedule in returning receipts for checks written to cover fees - an early step in the process. Were we caught off guard by the volume Let s just say it was anticipated it would increase. It was not anticipated it would increase by that much, said Emilio Gonzalez, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services.The immi
stanley website gration agency would not say how many applications it has received. The American Immigration Lawyers Association, a private legal advocacy group, said it was told by agency officials that 3.5 million applications had come in over a two-month period. The agency projected a workload of 3.2 million applications for
stanley cup fiscal years 2008 and 2009.Gonzalez ordered his staff to give priority to naturalizations, but some applicants will miss voting in primaries, which begin in January.
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Max Fisher from the Washington Post has compiled some maps and charts showing all Nobel Prize winners by region since 1901. Surprisingly, 83% of all Nobel laureates have come from Western countries, revealing a significant amount of scientific inequity around the globe. By Western countries Fisher is referring to Western Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Looking at the map, its clear that Western Europe and North America take the lions share of the awards. These prizes have been granted to 72 differen
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stanley sverige ntries, the U.S., Britain, and Germany. The U.S., which won three new prizes on Monday all in economics , has now been awarded a total of 347 Nobel prizes 鈥?far and away more than any other country in the world. The next highest ranked is Britain with 120, followed by Germany with 104, France with 65, Sweden with 30, and Russia with 27. Image: A heat map of Nobel Prize winners by country
stanley tumbler : But outside of these regions there isnt much to go around. Africa has 16 Nobel laureates, while Asia, the most populous region in the world, has only claimed 49 Nobel prizes. Combined, Asia, Africa, and Latin America have won only 104 Nobel prizes 鈥?regions that hold 81% of the worlds population, but only 10% of its Nobel laureates. There are likely several factors at play here. First, theres clearly a bias towards Western science much of it justified . Second, and relatedly, theres a bias towards certain scientif