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...American universities for someone over here are a minefield," Winchester's Gregory said. "The lack of the equivalent of UCAS [a common application for British universities] means that they have to do a lot of homework before they can make a choice...
Navigating carefully through what amounted to a political minefield, Clinton finally settled on a program that would start as painlessly as possible, with a five-year, $5 billion program of tax credits for companies that invest in energy-saving technology, and government spending on energy research. He pointed out that many fuel-saving technologies, such as compact fluorescent light bulbs, already exist, and other breakthroughs, like practical fuel cells that generate clean energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen, are being put to greater use all the time. The government has already begun to jump start the alternative-energy industry...
OSLO: Ignoring U.S. objections, delegates from nearly 100 nations have endorsed a draft of the proposed global ban on land mines, leaving President Clinton stranded in a political minefield of his own. According to TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, Clinton's unhappy dilemma is this: On the one hand, he would love to be seen signing a widely popular (and Princess Di-endorsed) pact and to avoid being lumped with such pariah states as China and Libya. On the other hand, he faces intense Pentagon hostility to the agreement...
...Among Washington?s objections: they want to keep mines along the Korean border and to be able to nix the accord altogether in time of war. These have been rejected by the other parties at Oslo ? which leaves the White House negotiating a particularly tricky political minefield...
...teen drug use. Designed to combat teen smoking, it is a series of role-playing and problem-solving exercises with not even a mention of marijuana until lesson No. 3. "The idea is to present drug resistance in a large context of social skills kids need to navigate the minefield of adolescence," says Gilbert Botvin, director of Cornell University's Institute for Prevention Research, who developed Life Skills based on behavioral data about teens...