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...54th minute, sophomore Orly Ripmaster served a beautifully arching ball from the right sideline, which Yenne redirected past the unprepared Yale goalie for the hat trick...
...Supreme Court agreed Oct. 10 to hear two cases that will significantly impact the constitutional and human rights of deportable immigrants. The cases concern the fate of two legal immigrants scheduled to be deported for serious crimes whose home countries refuse to take them back. Currently, these immigrants reside in legal limbo, unable to live freely in any country. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is seeking the power to incarcerate them indefinitely--after their prison terms have ended--until deportation can be arranged. Though these individuals may have forfeited their right to reside in the U.S., they have...
These immigrants are trapped because some countries, unlike the United States, do not automatically grant citizenship and the right of return upon birth. Kestutis Zadvydas was born in a displaced persons camp in U.S.-occupied Germany shortly after World War II, to parents from a region contested by Lithuania and Russia. Having finished a prison term for a narcotics offense and now scheduled for deportation, he has nowhere to go: Germany, which recognizes citizenship by blood rather than territory, refuses to acknowledge him as a citizen, and Lithuania has demanded documentation of his parents' residence that can no longer...
...holds a lot more information. One smart card, Gloton says, could function as an ID, store medical history and let us use all our bank and credit accounts. And someday it could be like cash, since everything from newsstands to vending machines will have card readers. If Gloton is right, our pockets won't be weighed down by a bunch of coins--unless we still need them for flipping...
COMBO CAMERA Do you love the convenience of digital cameras but miss that unforgettable instant-photo smell? Now you can have the best of both worlds with the C-211 Zoom, a new digital camera developed jointly by Olympus and Polaroid. It features a built-right-in printer that churns out copies of your digital snapshots on the spot, just like a conventional Polaroid. Its 2.1-megapixel images and 8MB memory card aren't too shabby, either. At $799 the C-211 is definitely a "prosumer" item, but it hints at better (and cheaper) things to come...