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...Bush set August as a goal for getting something done--a nod perhaps to the political calendar and to the fact that in Washington, at least, his own guest-worker visa will expire soon...
...Woodroffe is not the first to try to adapt capsule hotels to the European market. Stelios Hadji-Ioannou, founder of budget airline easyJet, launched the first easyHotel in London in August 2005, offering tiny spartan rooms averaging 7.5 sq m (most without windows) in the high-rent South Kensington district. Want restaurant service or minibars? Forget it. And you'll pay about $10 a night extra if you want to watch the flat-screen TV. As a result, rates average about $78. Yet travelers appear to have embraced no-frills accommodation. easyHotel's occupancy rate averages 89%, says Roger Powell...
...Cave knows those kinds of symptoms all too well. In August of 2005, her 21-year-old daughter Jennifer was killed by Colton Pitonyak, 22, a University of Texas finance major with a drug habit. Jennifer had dropped out of college, but was trying to get her own life back on track after some problems with drugs and had begun work as a legal assistant. After Jennifer failed to return home from a dinner out with Pitonyak, Sharon, a Corpus Christi small business owner, and her boyfriend, Jim Sedwick, drove to Austin and began the search. When...
...boom we experienced high demand and raised the cap to 195,000, a level that was never reached. Congress, however, let the cap fall back to 65,000 in 2003. Since then it has been reached progressively earlier each year as demand has increased—first in August, then in May, and now in early April. There is already bipartisan support for a measure that would push the cap on visas upward and create an automatic-adjustment system so that Congress is not several years behind in reacting to increased visa demand. But bickering and politicking over the comprehensive...
...Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last Friday that he will push to reverse restrictions on stem cell research that were imposed by his predecessor, Mitt Romney. The restrictions—which were drafted by Romney’s aides and adopted last August by the state’s Public Health Council—limited the stem cell lines that Massachusetts researchers were allowed to use.Romney’s critics have argued that the restrictions run counter to the intent of a law passed in 2005 by the state legislature that was intended to promote stem...