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Enrollment of foreign graduate students increased this fall—both at Harvard and across the nation—easing worries that post-Sept. 11 visa policies would deter overseas applicants from coming here. At Harvard, total enrollment of foreign graduate students increased 3 or 4 percent, said Ricardo Maldonado, assistant director for administration in the Harvard International Office. Foreign student enrollment rose 1 percent nationally, after three years of decline, while first-year enrollment of graduate students jumped 12 percent, according to a study released this week by the Council of Graduate Schools, a national organization dedicated...
...farms from falling agricultural prices due to cheap foreign imports. “The [U.S.] corporations are not the problem...Now my competition is in Canada and Central America,” Bonanno said. While fair trade crops can be more expensive, Bar Am said higher prices may not deter consumers. “You are paying more money but you’re also getting more information. With fair trade, there is the added value of transparency,” he said. Bonanno is more skeptical, however. “There’s a lot of people...
...Carter, a counterproliferation expert at Harvard, believes the risk of nuclear proliferation out the back door of a rogue state is increasing. North Korea or Iran could conceivably sell a bomb to a terrorist group, and Osama bin Laden is unlikely to be put off by traditional methods of deterring a nuclear attack. That means plugging the source. Says Derek D. Smith, author of Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: "If you can't deter the terrorist organizations, you'd better be sure to deter whoever is supplying them...
...signed on to the PSI, has been a valuable partner. This summer North Korea conducted conventional- missile tests--in defiance of its chief patron Beijing and the rest of the world. And now China, which has sold conventional missiles to Iran in the past, is stepping up efforts to deter Pyongyang from moving missile and missile-related technology to Iran. A high-ranking diplomat in East Asia tells TIME that China has denied overflight rights to North Korean aircraft bound for Tehran...
...there that will? The Bush Administration insists there is, and that cooperation among the Western allies will ultimately rein in North Korea and deter future nuclear wannabes like Iran. Yet that may be more hope than reality. Says Delpech: "We're now facing two very grave cases of proliferation at the same time, and we have to use this moment of condemnation to pull the [established world] powers together." But considering how long it took for the Security Council to ban the sale of luxury goods to Pyongyang, time does not appear to be on our side. [This article contains...