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...More than six years after 9/11, Noble says there is still a "gaping hole" in the world's security - passengers aren't screened before they board international flights. E.U. officials have already said that people who book air tickets to Europe will in future need to supply personal details to airlines, which will in turn pass them to European security services - though they have not specified that they will check the details against Interpol's lists. U.S. consulates are aiming to check all travelers applying for visas against Interpol lists, says Washington director Renkiewicz. While Davies says those new rules...
...that none of those alternatives come into play once we're actually in the moment. That's what Daniel Gilbert, author and Harvard psychology professor, means by "attentional collapse": it's the idea that when we are actually having an engaging, encompassing experience, it acts like a black hole of imagination, sucking in all of our attention and making our preconceptions irrelevant...
...Alexandra Zindman fought hard but went down in three games, 10-8, 9-6, 10-8. In the No. 9 spot, sophomore Sandra Mumanachit sent her match to the fifth set, but she too ended up losing, 0-9, 10-8, 9-4, 7-9, 9-7. In a hole, Harvard managed to rally and take two of three in the second set of matches, keeping alive the possibility of coming out of New Haven with a win. Sophomore No. 8 Charlene Neo lost her first game 9-0, but came back to win her match in four games. Freshman...
When it comes to Texas politics, Austin is the liberal hole in the largely conservative donut, a decidedly Democratic city that relies on politics to fuel the local economy and feed the social ether. So ever since it was announced that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would hold a presidential debate on the campus of the University of Texas on February 21, the city has been abuzz with anticipation and excitement. That infectious enthusiasm, however, quickly turned to disappointment after debate organizers announced the event would be closed to the public...
...school teachers give up before they get there. Between a quarter and a third of new teachers quit within their first three years on the job, and as many as 50% leave poor, urban schools within five years. Hiring new teachers is "like filling a bucket with a huge hole in the bottom," says Thomas Carroll, president of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a Washington-based nonprofit...