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...Until recently, the foreign spouses almost always received permanent residency status, one step away from full citizenship. Last year more than 60,000 foreigners took that route. Convinced that more than a third of the petitions for permanent residency based on marriage are fraudulent, Congress in October enacted an alien-marriage bill to help the INS guard against those who wed simply to become citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tightening the Knot | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Even alien encounters are going digital. The French space agency CNES is set to release on the Internet its archive of 1,600 UFO sightings and incidents by late January or mid-February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Jan. 15, 2007 | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...soft-shoe routine with his creator (Gene Wilder) while screeching Irving Berlin's Puttin' On the Ritz. "He's big and ugly and scary," Boyle said of the ogre. "But he's just been born, remember, and it's been traumatic. To him the whole world is ... an alien environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 25, 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...professors focused their criticisms on the act’s stipulation that no court has the “jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Profs Assail Anti-Terror Act | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

...people who brought you the weird music alien iZ have come out with another equally alien device, called Zoundz. It looks like the sort of leisure device Captain Kirk might encounter in a martian boudoir, a shiny white puddle with colorful, crazy-shaped blocks and blinking lights. You move the blocks to create and manipulate the music, and the lights lock in step. Six of the blocks have sound sequences built in?string, keyboard, percussion, etc. The seventh block is for recording your own five seconds of audio. By moving the music blocks around on the three light patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zizzle Zoundz and Other Toys | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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