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Their educations were not accepted by Canadian standards and they could not secure credentials to teach here.

Her husband published a research paper with a colleague in a British journal but still could not break into Canadian academia.

The couple was left looking for work.

"I don't blame anybody here.

It's the system, I think," she said.

Finding a job was "our greatest challenge," she said.

"Luckily, we didn't give up.

We had hopes and we really wanted to make a change in our lives and we wanted to make a change in the lives of our children.

"We wanted to contribute to this beautiful country, which we chose to be our home." Hussein, through the help of immigration lawyer Ed Corrigan, secured a job as a receptionist.

She also became qualified as an interpreter.

She also discovered doors opening through volunteerism.

The connections led to a job at Families First in White Oaks where she worked for six years as a volunteer co-ordinator before landing the job with Childreach.

Her husband also became an interpreter, then set up his own business before landing work with the South London Community Centre as a volunteer co-ordinator.

"It's been so many hard knocks," Hussein said.

"But we didn't lose hope." It's that determination she's sharing with newcomers, encouraging them to find out about their new city, their new country, their new lifestyle.

There is always fear in the beginning, she ...

Most of this is from 20 million to 35 million years ago and therefore a bit too recent for the dinosaurs.

There has been some older DNA extracted that gets closer to what you'd want for dinosaurs, but dates often get controversial as one reaches further back.Cloning is a trickier story.

Here, what one does is take the entire nucleus from a living cell and stick it into an egg cell with the nucleus removed and then hope the new thing will start dividing and make something identical to what the nucleus came from.

That is, what we need now is not just a full dinosaur nucleus but also a dinosaur egg cell into which that nucleus could be placed.

It might work in a crocodile egg or something like that, but very possibly not - in which case we're kind of stuck.

In addition, the cell nucleus means not just the DNA, but also all the associated ''packing material," which we still don't understand fully but which is almost certainly important.

This is a crucial point, since it reminds us that even if we could get the whole ''DNA sequence" on a computer, we would still not be able to stick it into a cell and make a new creature.That being said, we do things today that would have seemed impossible 100 years ago, so who knows?

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