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Further down the road we surveyed the remains of a modern, privately owned lumber mill. Two small children played among the metallic ruins, as our escort explained how their fathers, and dozens of others, were left without jobs as a result of the Contra attack...
...WOULDN'T THINK someone who played that position in a campaign--the tack on the other candidates' seats--would sneak out so cravenly. The latest assertion making its way through the Massachusetts political rumor mill is that Tip O'Neill, who supports Shannon, pressured Markey to quit. That seems out of character for Tip, but if Markey is re-elected and starts receiving favors from the high command, it might be worth redirecting our present scorn...
...powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) wants to see software treated as industrial property covered by patent law, which allows for only 15 years of protection. The U.S. Government argues that software is intellectual property and should be protected for up to 50 years under copyright treaties. Mill is also pushing for an arbitration system, in which software developers could be legally obliged to make certain products available to competitors if the product is considered "highly useful to the public interest." U.S. officials are extremely wary of the arbitration proposal, and negotiations are stalemated...
...maintains that people who buy the diplomas are often partners in fraud. Over a decade, one diploma mill, Southeastern University in Greenville, S.C., graduated 620 students, including 171 county, state and federal employees...
Such a law faces one major difficulty: there is a fine line in some states between schools that are experimental and those that are illegitimate. It is hard to define a diploma mill. In California, for instance, anyone can set up an "authorized" degree program by providing a list of faculty members and courses and $50,000 in assets (a home qualifies). Southland University in Pasadena, for example, meets all the state requirements. Yet last year the former registrar told the FBI that one student received a B.A. in engineering after submitting a short...