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...changing its scholarship criteria to reduce the role of race. The move was unrelated to the UGA ruling, but it was a reminder that in the ongoing assault on affirmative action, these secondary forms of assistance--outreach programs, new admissions criteria, targeted scholarships--may be the next battleground...
Right now the finger seems to point to Osama bin Laden harbored in Afghanistan by the Taliban government. Bin Laden has long been a worthy target for arrest, capture and trial, for planning and carrying out terrorist attacks. Afghanistan has long been a Cold War battleground upon which America and the Soviet Union maneuvered...
...Mount Pelion, 170 km northwest of Athens, excavations have revealed remains of a Mycenean palace and city, a trading center for the mythical Jason and the Argonauts, who could have been gold traders sailing the Aegean and Black Sea. NIGERIA Crime Wave The streets of Lagos have become a battleground as police struggle to contain a dramatic upsurge in armed robberies. In the 10 months from August last year, 273 civilians and 84 police have died at the hands of gangs of thieves. Some of the gangs have as many as 50 members, who attack residential areas, raid banks...
...years ago, fed by Colorado's booming popularity. Every 15 years the U.S. Forest Service must create a new land-use plan for the region, and the draft released in 1999--six years in the works--has precipitated a contentious debate, of which Red Creek is just one breathtaking battleground...
This is the new battleground of customer rights: airport terminals. After watching service disintegrate and politicians fail to solve worsening congestion, airport managers are trying to fix the air-travel mess on their own. Massport, the regional authority that runs delay-plagued Logan, has taken the most radical step. In February, it became the first such authority in the nation to set minimum performance standards for airlines. Soon it will name names of underachievers in its "Guaranteed Passenger Standards" program, which requires carriers to shape up or face fines--or worse. "Airports have historically been run for the benefit...