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...staff for handling petitions 35%, to just 11. The agency's Branch of Acknowledgment and Research (BAR) staff, which evaluates applicants on a complex range of factors, including genealogy, culture and continuous existence, is overwhelmed. The result: a November 2001 report by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, paints the picture of a process in disarray, calling the BIA understaffed, lacking coherent guidelines and having no clear sense of mission...
...plays him to perfection, is particularly weighty or out of shape for a 66-year-old man. What slows him is the rhythms of his region and his culture; he is a Midwesterner of the Wasp persuasion, which means he is solid, stolid and silent, except when exchanging arm's-length pleasantries with his friends. Like so many men of his class and place, he has bent himself to a job (as an insurance company actuary) that is at once dull and intricate and to a city (Omaha, Neb.) where the agreed-upon illusion is stability. Schmidt is probably...
...Unlike many other vaccines, smallpox contains live virus. A doctor or nurse takes a pronged instrument, dips it into the virus and gives the patient several pricks, usually on the upper arm, with the contaminated prongs. The result is a circular sore, which initially becomes filled with pus and eventually drains and scabs over. Within two weeks, the sore is gone and only a small scar remains. During the time that the sore is infected, the patient is contagious to others and should keep the vaccination site covered. Some people will experience soreness, fever, head and body aches after...
...project and a middle school. Now, she’s more selective in how she spends her time, partly because she needs to be cautious. “I don’t have the best balance on my left side. I can’t control my right arm. It’s still difficult to speak,” she says. “I try not to put myself in situations where I’ll just fail people. It’s still hard to know what’s changing.” But she?...
...reams of documentation in Baghdad last Saturday breathlessly followed from airport to airport by 24-hour news TV crews before arriving in New York - where they were promptly snatched in a late-night swoop on UN headquarters by U.S. officials empowered by a last-minute round of diplomatic arm-twisting. Washington had managed to persuade the Permanent Five members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Russia, China and the U.S.) to agree that they should all have privileged access to Iraq's declaration before the remaining ten members, and was simply transferring the documents to the White House for secure...