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Most high school counselors and college admissions officers insist there is no substitute for strolling a campus, but if that is not possible, a virtual visit may give you some sense of what a school is like. Chris Carson, director of CampusTours.com a website with links to more than 800 schools, says students can actually draw conclusions from these tours that they might not on a guided tour. "Students we survey say they look at these things as a sign of an institution's commitment to technology," he says. "If you've got an old picture-and-text tour...
...yard plays an important part in Boston’s economy. It’s the link to the port,” he said. “It serves local businesses. It carries products to local consumers at a lower price than can be done by truck...
...don’t need numbers to know when we are threatened, tacitly or not. Why must sex be forever attached to fear in women’s minds? It has been said that reminding people of the persistence of rape serves to imprison female psychology within this link, and I fear that’s true. But the alternative seems more dangerous. Even if we are not survivors, we are doing this for ourselves...
...Sept. 11, Wolfowitz tried to persuade Bush to back a scheme to lop off the southern part of Iraq, including Basra, its third largest city, and some important oil fields. That went nowhere. And no matter how hard the intelligence agencies looked, they couldn't come up with a link between Saddam and Sept. 11 that might persuade Bush of the virtues of an early strike...
...Iraq-now camp? The most important factor was also the simplest. By the fall of 2001, Bush and other senior policymakers in Washington were scared out of their wits. On Oct. 4 came the first anthrax attacks on New York City and Washington. Again, no evidence was found linking Saddam to the attacks. But Saddam had once admitted developing anthrax weapons to U.N. inspectors, and now anthrax was being used to kill Americans. Even if a link to Baghdad could not be proved, this was enough to stiffen the spines of those who thought Saddam's WMDs had been left...