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...reported that "At Harvard, families that earn less than $40,000 a year don't have to contribute a penny to their kids' education." This spring Harvard raised the cutoff to $60,000 a year. ADAM GUREN Los Angeles...
...control of the Palestinian Authority. It pits Abbas, a secular but weak moderate, who controls the presidency and has the backing of Israel and the international community, against Hamas, which won a majority in legislative elections last January, but has struggled to establish legitimacy, due in part to the cutoff in Western aid to its government. The violence reached new heights last week, when Hamas gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at the office of the Preventive Security Force, a well-armed stronghold of Fatah militiamen, setting off a gun battle that left 20 wounded. Abbas's supporters retaliated by torching...
...settled. She had an apartment in New York and a job with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment banking company. But Rana received a call yesterday morning informing her that the company would probably have to rescind her job offer.Rana, who is from Nepal, said she just missed the cutoff for a H-1B work visa after her company sent in her visa application on May 26.That same day, the federal government had reached its 2006 quota of 65,000 work visas and stopped accepting visa petitions, according to a press release from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).Last...
...Educating girls in poor countries," by Assistant Professor of Physics Lubos Motl "Many people believe that there is a lower bound for the percentage of intelligent and/or educated people in the society above a certain cutoff that are necessary for the society to kick-start a growth curve and the girls in the poor countries seem to be the single most underappreciated group...
...Officials seemed ill-prepared for the event even though the chemical-plant explosion had occurred more than a week earlier, on Nov. 13, some 200 miles upstream on the Songhua River. On Monday, a statement from the Harbin government attributed the surprise cutoff to "water main maintenance and repair." One day later, on Tuesday, a second statement issued on the city's official Web site acknowledged that the explosion had "perhaps polluted the water" in the river...