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...coveted green card, an immigrant must be related to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, qualified to fill a job for which there is a shortage of applicants in the U.S. or be a refugee facing persecution at home. Each category has bred its schemes and near scams. The easiest and most popular is the sham marriage. "Some are so phony they don't pass the laugh test," says Washington Lawyer Michael Maggio. In some cases prostitutes have been hired to say "I do" to aliens they have never...
...spies. More Soviet agents are operating in the U.S. than ever before, and the number of military and technological secrets is growing exponentially. Says Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the CIA: "We must be one of the world's easiest targets...
...feel too cheated, though Harvard, like most northeastern schools, plays one of the easiest Division I schedules in the country. Most of the teams that made it to the regionals are clearly better than the Crimson. Only Western Carolina (35-33) and Lamar (32-22) have winning percentages below...
...nice to win the ones you should win." Crimson Coach John Wentzell said. He added, though, that "those sometimes are not the easiest games...
Terminal defense is easiest, technologically. Warheads, heated and slowed by friction with the atmosphere on re-entry to speeds of about two miles per second, could be tracked by airborne or even ground-based radar. They could be hit by interceptor rockets or pellets discharged by fragmentation bombs. But enough missiles would have to be destroyed in boost, and enough warheads in post-boost phase or mid-course, to keep the terminal defense from being overwhelmed. And then there is the problem of hitting the warheads high enough to minimize the effect of blast, fire and radiation on the ground...