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Michael Crye, president of the International Council of Cruise Lines, insists that the low incidence of reported crimes reflects the generally safe environment on the ships. Despite cases like Kelly's, he notes, cruise employees are vetted more rigorously than hospitality workers onshore and undergo a background check by the U.S. State Department. Royal Caribbean reported that its violent-crime rate last year was 15 incidents per 100,000 people on board. "We're approximately 30 times safer than American communities in general," says the company's head of fleet operations, Captain Bill Wright, who maintains that Royal Caribbean discloses...
...Holyoke,” Brown said. “They have to meet the same academic requirements for admissions as any other transfer student.” Amherst College’s director of public affairs, Stacey Schmeidel, said that opening up the school to students of all backgrounds increases the quality of the student body. “The goal is not just increasing socio-economic diversity, it’s about getting the best students regardless of what their background is,” Schmeidel said. “There are a lot of talented low and middle...
...people should be encouraged to determine their genetic susceptibility to depression. "One of the difficulties we face whenever we talk about a gene," says the study's geneticist, Peter Schofield, "is that everybody wants to attribute to that gene absolute causality. In this case it merely sits in the background as a predisposer." For now, the authors suspect, testing is premature...
...Schroeder, opened the program with a successful depiction of colorful themes that illustrated vivid scenes of pine groves. The orchestra admirably captured the spirit of this fresh and innovative piece. Some particularly memorable features included a recording of a singing nightingale played while the violins trilled softly in the background, and the performance of a handful of brass players from the high balcony of the theatre in the march section, which effectively captured the attention of audience members below. The main attraction of the night was Levin’s rendition of the Mozart “Piano Concerto...
...Kodak Moment" [Feb. 20] described a gathering of about two dozen people that included President Bush, Raul Garza--who was a client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff--and Abramoff himself. The photo of the meeting that TIME published shows Bush and Garza shaking hands, with Abramoff in the background between a wall and some onlookers. You even had to draw a circle around his face to point him out. That photo goes nowhere near making the case that Bush and Abramoff were close; it makes the case that TIME was desperate for any picture that included...