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Unlike MIT, Harvard does not carry out classified research. The committee’s report will instead focus on the University’s research on select biological agents—the branch of national security research that some of its schools do pursue...
...unique attachment to U.S. forces overseas. Such feelings were movingly articulated by NASCAR president Mike Helton at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom. “We believe there is a special bond between our troops and our sport,” he said. “Each branch of the American military is represented in NASCAR racing, and our chairman, Bill France, has always described NASCAR fans as ‘the kind of people who go to war and win wars for America.’ Many of those fans are currently deployed throughout the world, doing just...
...this community it’s expected of you by your peers that you branch out and do new things, that you light design, that you do stage crew, that you don’t just stick to what you do,” Corriel says...
Robert Kerley used to keep his money with a big national bank, and every time he visited his branch, he felt like a walking account number. Tellers rarely greeted him by name, as he had come to expect in Winona, Minn., a town of 27,000 where people tend to know one another. And despite being a longtime customer, he would be fingerprinted with invisible ink when he wanted to make multiple transactions...
...serving others in the same industry. Walt Disney's credit union, which had been restricted to Disney employees, their families and affiliated firms, may now apply to court any worker in the entertainment business in Los Angeles; Orlando, Fla.; or anywhere else that the credit union has a branch. Credit unions chartered to serve bundles of companies may expand to a new company simply by installing an ATM; previously a full-service branch was required. And the government has streamlined the application process for credit unions that want to serve whole communities, restricted only by, say, the county line...