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...same time that its approach becomes more long-term, the campaign’s proposals are getting more sophisticated. The recent newsletter reiterated the campaign’s call for “card-check neutrality,” a promise by the University that it will not interfere in attempts to organize and that it will recognize a new union as soon as half of the affected workers sign cards in the union’s favor. It would be difficult for a University that says it supports collective bargaining to defend its right to mount a campaign against...
...even tougher. Despite the high degree of security, Israel is still subject to terrorism. The Sept. 11 terrorists accurately diagnosed the U.S.'s weaknesses in both airport security and immigration laws. They found the loopholes, which we must now work to close. Above all, we need an ID card that is backed by a secure database that will protect everyone's identity and trip up the evildoers in our country. BYRON SLATER San Diego...
EXPENSIVE $3,159 GATEWAY 700XL So you want the best there is? How about a 2-GHz Pentium 4 processor with 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and the top-of-the-line NVidia GeForce3 graphics card? And the extras are as premium as the innards: surround-sound speakers, a wireless mouse, a year of free AOL service and a gorgeous 18-in. flat-panel monitor. www.gateway.com...
...year is 2030 and drinking natural water is banned in most nations. In India, citizens are forced to hydrate with tablets and clean themselves with specially manufactured blow-dryers. Commuting via helicopter is standard, and the left palm serves as both ID and credit card. But our passive protagonist, 70-year-old photographer Paresh Bhatt, still enjoys writing with a fountain pen on thick stationery and mourns the loss of fresh coffee. He is determined to hang onto the past, which in this case is the 1980s...
...monks' melding of the gentle tenets of Buddhism with ancient combat techniques has earned it renown as the symbolic birthplace of Chinese martial arts. Just ask the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service: it thought Yan Ming should register his hands as lethal weapons when he applied for a green card. Just ask the Henan Tourist Bureau: it put Yan Ming on a billboard of provincial treasures. Or ask Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, John Woo and Chow Yun-fat: they all call Yan Ming shifu, or master. Just don't ask the abbot of the Shaolin Temple; he "prefers...