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Last year, like more than 500,000 other foreigners, a man named Hani Hanjour used a student visa to enter the U.S. He had been accepted to an intensive English course run by ELS Language Centers at Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif., where the basic admission requirement is ability to pay the $1,325 fee. When classes began last November, Hanjour didn't show. Immigration officials, who rarely track the whereabouts of student visa holders, had no idea where he was. The FBI now believes he spent much of his time in San Diego and Maryland, trying to hone...
...these experiments, researchers would transfer loose strands of DNA-—the basic molecular unit of heredity—from warm-blooded animals into specimens of E. coli, a commonly-utilized laboratory bacterium, in hopes of producing a new species with heretofore unknown characteristics...
...intended to emphasize the importance of service to a proper education. But after the horrific drama of the last few weeks, unlike so many other perspectives, mine has only been strengthened. There are now more examples than ever of individuals and groups whose responses to Sept. 11 reveal our basic human gift to serve others, and more than ever I am convinced that a Harvard education should nurture this element of our character...
...will. Whether or not to provide heavy assistance to the airlines did not pose much of an economic dilemma for U.S. lawmakers; the airline industry is a major sector of the U.S. economy, and many other industries depend on air travel as part of our nation’s basic infrastructure...
...opener is the basic assumption that makes all the above possible. It?s the way economists have of eliminating variables, of cleaning up the forecasts, of making the economic world nice and orderly for economists whose job it is to tell the future...