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...security meltdown has sparked concern in Washington. Mexico's $25 billion- a-year drug-trafficking industry moves at least 75% of the Colombian cocaine that enters the U.S. Law-enforcement officials fear drug violence is spilling into the U.S. and sending more Mexicans across the border illegally. "Whenever something impacts the border as dangerously as this does," says a high-ranking U.S. law-enforcement official, "Americans need to consider it a national-security issue." Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who has pledged to "give no quarter" to the cartels, has deployed 25,000 army troops to battle them...
...idle talk: Thanks to the DPJ landslide victory in elections for the Japanese Diet on July 29 that gave it control of the legislature's Upper House for the first time ever, Ozawa is in the driver's seat. "U.S. President Bush started the war in Afghanistan with no concern for the United Nations and the international community," Ozawa told reporters in a press conference...
...Nebraska at Lincoln has been implementing a policy where a mental health professional is placed as a live-in member of every dorm on campus. In addition, RAs are trained in basic mental health counseling but are encouraged to get professionals involved as early as possible in situations of concern. The University of Richmond in Virginia is also increasing training for RAs in crisis response and management. While faculty and university police already receive this training, Richmond is adding sessions to include the student staff so as to streamline guidelines and protocols for action...
...energetic and engaging member of the Dunster House community," read an e-mail sent last week by Dunster's House Masters, Roger B. and Ann Porter, and Paulette G. Curtis '92, Dunster's Allston Burr resident dean. "His large and diverse group of friends reflected the genuine concern he exhibited for others. We will all miss him greatly...
...investigations to confirm the source of the outbreak continued, the European Commission said Monday it had banned all live animal exports from Britain, as well as meat and dairy products from the infected area. Further restrictions may come into force on Wednesday, raising concerns about the impact to British agriculture. The FMD outbreak six years ago devastated British farming and hit tourism, costing the economy an estimated $17 billion. But with focus on a government laboratory and vaccination firm, there is a deeper concern among British farmers, and its citizens: can they trust the very people employed to protect them...