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Since the establishment of the Office for International Studies last year, along with the streamlining of the application process and the efforts to develop more Harvard-accredited programs, more students have been electing to spend a semester or two at overseas institutions, indicating the latent demand for study abroad. By giving students more flexibility, the committee’s reduction in requirements is a further step in the right direction of making study abroad an attractive option, rather than a logistical nightmare...
...there are still more steps that need to be taken by the Office of International Studies to make sure this advance in curricular flexibility is enhanced by supports in other areas. The moves that have been taken to develop a Harvard-affiliated—instead of simply Harvard-approved—program in study abroad in Chile are encouraging, and we hope that with the success of that effort, more such programs will be created so that students will have a wider array of choices when considering studying overseas. The University should also be more flexible about schools in Britain...
...UNITED STATES Although President George W. Bush spends endless hours trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, his Administration isn't above creating a few itself. The Pentagon is hard at work pushing to develop the first new class of U.S. nukes since the end of the cold war. Two plans are on the table: retooling existing warheads into atomic sledgehammers capable of destroying bunkers beneath 300 meters of rock, and designing new mini-size nukes ideal for targeting stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. Congress banned work on mini-nukes for the past decade out of fear that...
...believes that Khan had a key role in helping North Korea develop at least one or two nuclear devices, a senior official tells TIME. Under pressure from the U.S., the Pakistani government two years ago stripped Khan of his position in the nuclear and military establishment and barred him from traveling abroad without official permission. Within Pakistan, Khan is always accompanied by two military officers, Pakistani officials say. But Washington fears that he may still have enough freedom to be able to shop Pakistan's nuclear secrets to other clients. Says a Washington official: "He moves around very freely...
...It’s a two-way street,” he said. “One way to overcome that is to meet and discuss and develop a relationship...