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...year calls for the construction of 370 miles of pedestrian fence along the border by 2008 - 129 miles in Arizona, 153 in Texas, 76 in California and 12 in New Mexico. Pedestrian fences have so far proved useful in inhibiting human traffic, but conservationists and others worry they limit access to the habitat for endangered species such as jaguars and the antelope-like Sonoran Desert pronghorn...
...Senator Obama has also devoted his attention to less glamorous issues like helping to ensure additional funding to secure former Soviet nuclear materials and limiting access to conventional arms. He has sponsored bills that raise fuel-economy standards and directly confront the genocide in Darfur...
...form. PBHA and other volunteer organizations and employers use CORIs to screen applicants to protect the populations which they serve from potentially dangerous criminals. Although CORIs may seem logical (why wouldn’t we want to protect middle school students from criminal offenders?), the composition, abuse, and widespread access to CORI by private employers have created serious racial and penal injustices. When CORI was created in the 1970s as a database for criminal records, it was intended to improve both the efficiency of the criminal justice system and “to safeguard the privacy of the CORI subjects...
...development center dedicated to using computing tools to accelerate scientific discoveries—among other science-oriented programs. In a detailed traffic analysis presentation, Chris Conklin, Harvard’s traffic consultant from Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., outlined multiple options for how Harvard’s workers would access and exit the construction site. One of the access plans utilizes existing roads close to neighbors’ homes, a proposition that drew ire from some residents. Additionally, local residents worried about how they would discern whether cars parked on neighborhood streets belong to residents or construction workers...
...security thus amounts to throwing cash down the drain. The government has better things on which to spend money. A more appropriate means of targeting and reducing or eliminating illegal immigration is the demystification of the process to citizenship. If this process is made less complicated and easier to access, the incentives to immigrate illegally will pale beside the ease of the legal path to citizenship. Ultimately, however, there must be some process of selecting who will become a permanent resident and eventually a citizen. We believe that a system that puts a higher premium on skills better meets America?...