Word: processing
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...leaders were desperate to counter Castro's planned visit to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, and were saved when Elian washed up as their poster boy. Millionaire chairman Jorge Mas denies the lobby is using Elian: "Our mission is to ensure that this boy gets his due process of law." But he adds, "We want to provoke Castro as long as we can, to make the world see the hopeless reality of repression in Cuba...
...only 6,000 of which will arrive in fat, happy envelopes. But as the father of an 18-year-old applicant to three colleges, Saleh himself is praying to the mailbox god this year. He suggests that parents and their college applicants can help prepare themselves for the rejection process by doing some homework before the letters arrive. "Recall positive aspects of all the schools on your list--especially the 'safety schools,'" he says. "Get out the brochures and watch the videos, and remember what you liked about them that made you apply in the first place." Be available...
...school that wants your child. Congratulate your kid on being wise enough to apply to that school, and plan to make a spring visit to campus. Bill Mayher, author of The College Admissions Mystique and a veteran high school guidance counselor, says parents should appreciate the maturing process brought on by the skinny envelope. "We're trying to put kids in charge of their lives here, and we shouldn't undermine it with our own expectations. Besides," he notes, "college is too blunt an instrument to tell you who you are for the rest of your life...
...guinea-pig period. After all, even the most careful clinical trials of a new medication usually involve just a few thousand patients. So, in the beginning, only a drug's most common side effects are known. But once a pharmaceutical clears the Food and Drug Administration's review process, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people start taking it. That's when you get a better idea of the true rate of complications, as well as any untoward interactions with other drugs...
...technically compelled to take action that will change Microsoft's business - many think Jackson will seek to break the firm into a bunch of "Baby Bills" when he produces his "remedy" in August - Bill Gates and his Redmond buddies are widely expected to appeal the decision, a process that could drag on for years. In the meantime, the whole nature of the computer-sofware-Internet business will have changed...