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...article written for the March issue of Penthouse magazine, David L. Weller '92 and fellow Stuyvesant High School graduate Larry Schultzargue that lax security measures allow impostors to take the SAT and substitute their scores for others. The SAT is the largest college preparatory entrance examination in the country, given to more than 2 million students each year...
Since the RJR deal--the largest-ever leveraged buyout--critics from members of Congress to economic policymakers have questioned the ethics of such hostile takeovers...
Then the question will be when, not if, the Soviet-backed regime of President Najibullah will fall. Though all the country's major cities are still under government control, Kandahar and Jalalabad, two of the five largest, have seen their defenses crumble under mujahedin attacks. Moscow insists it is determined to ensure the survival of Najibullah's government, but nearly all diplomats in Kabul believe the regime will collapse within months, perhaps even weeks, of Feb. 15. As the prospect of a bloody siege grew last week, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker ordered the closing of the American embassy...
...half the size of the U.S.'s squeezed into an area no bigger than Montana, Japan has virtually no room left in its teeming cities. Developers have built towering skyscrapers and even artificial islands in the sea, but the space crunch keeps getting worse. Now some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments beneath the earth's surface where millions of people could work, shop and, perhaps eventually, make their homes. "An underground city is no longer a dream. We expect it to actually materialize in the early part of the next century," says...
...strictly limits the resale of weapons. However, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold on the black market to drug dealers, street gangs and assorted thugs in Washington and New York City...