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...already holds visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan to a higher immigration standard, requiring them to register and be fingerprinted and photographed at ports of entry. And the courts have consistently sided with the government on such immigration restrictions, including President Carter's order at the height of the Iran hostage crisis that all Iranian students studying in the U.S. register with the INS. That decision, though, was handed down before racial profiling became part of the national vocabulary...
...senior captain in the People's Liberation Army. The family moved house a lot. Jiang affectionately recalls the rustic province of Guizhou where cured hams hung inside neighbors' homes and unattended warehouses of machine parts became treasure troves for mischievous 10-year-olds. It was in Guizhou at the height of the Cultural Revolution that the adolescent Jiang saw a performance of The Red Detachment of Women. "Watching the women on the stage with guns and short shorts," he says, "that was the first time I ever experienced sexual feelings...
...even a perfectionist--especially a perfectionist, maybe--has his dark side. The Emperor of Ocean Park begins with a corpse: Oliver Garland, a prominent black judge, is found dead of a heart attack at his desk. At the height of his career Garland was up for the Supreme Court, but his bid was scuttled by rumors of underworld ties, leaving him angry and embittered--he's the Clarence Thomas who might have been. Garland's son Talcott is a moody, middle-aged law professor saddled with a flagging career and a failing marriage. Growing up in the shadow...
...money and left customers cold. In fact, it's still not clear that free sites are even bad for business. The industry blamed online piracy for last year's 5% drop in CD sales, but didn't mention that CD sales climbed to record levels in 2000, at the height of Napster's reign. According to Jupiter Media, 84% of music swappers claim to spend more or the same on music now than before they started trading files. That may be disputable, but one thing's certain - lawsuits and subscription sites haven't worked. The relationship between consumers and music...
...Losing as little as 10-15 percent of body fat even with normal weight and height can make women infertile,” said Frisch, who has studied the relationship between body weight and fertility for 20 years...