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There are few basic requirements for the job. Applicants???there are now a few women among them?must be 21, graduates of a four-year institution and in excellent physical condition. Aspirants take the Treasury law enforcement entrance examinations, which test powers of observation along with basic knowledge. The highest scorers are tapped by the Service as vacancies occur and start at salaries ranging from $8,500 to $10,520 a year, depending on their prior experience. Recruits take a basic two-month course in criminology, surveillance and firearms use at a former military camp in Georgia. Next come another...
...record number of applicants also means a record number of rejections. The medical schools have only 11,800 openings for more than 26,000 applicants???and at least half of this year's rejects were qualified to enter. Ironically, pockets of the country are faced with a serious doctor shortage, and U.S. hospitals are relying on a foreign "brain gain" to get by: non-Americans now hold about a fourth of the nation's internships and residencies...
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