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...Technology Organization at Wollongong University will start the long process of evaluating the physical standards for all military tasks. This will take several years, but once the results are in, all branches of the ADF will be required to hire recruits based on whether they meet the physical benchmark - and gender and age requirements will be thrown out the window. (Read about Palestinian moms becoming martyrs...
...allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect a hitherto secret uranium-enrichment facility under construction near Qum. President Obama and his allies expressed grave concern last week about the site after revelations of its existence, and they made the demand for its inspection a key benchmark of Iran's willingness to cooperate in resolving questions about its nuclear intent. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana announced that Iran had agreed to inspections at the site "in the next couple of weeks" and hailed the talks as "the start of what we hope will...
...Because all of these countries are growing more robustly than the U.S., their interest rates are higher, thus creating a short-term opportunity for traders. Here's how it works with a currency like the Indonesian rupiah: the six-month London Interbank Offer Rate (or LIBOR, the benchmark for U.S. dollar borrowing), is now hovering at slightly less than 1%. That rock-bottom rate stands in stark contrast to the 6.5-7% rate of interest one can get from a short-term money market bill in Indonesia, where the 5-year government bond currently yields roughly 9%. The wide...
Though Kessel admitted that HUDS had been feeling the effects of budget cuts for quite some time, he said that he believes HUDS still runs one of the College’s benchmark programs...
...office in the early 1990s. Kagan’s Law School colleagues all praised her work and sought to use her government service as an example for HLS students about to enter the work-force. Kagan’s recent Supreme Court appearance—a benchmark for success for the nation’s top lawyers—was front and center in the panel discussion. Fried, himself a veteran of the Supreme Court, commended Kagan for her ability to give and take in argument and acknowledge difficulty in argument before the nation’s top legal minds...