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...track students while in the U.S. Despite the fact that the approximately 583,000 internationals enrolled in American universities contribute about $12 billion to the economy, on Oct. 27, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed that each should pay a $100 fee to fund an elaborate scheme to monitor them. The suggestion that international students should submit to such fees for the privilege of studying in the United States fails to appreciate the value of international students’ presence on U.S. campuses and gives the message that the U.S. is not interested in attracting young talent from...
...corner of a conference room at Montefiore Medical Center's Comprehensive Family Care facility in the Bronx, N.Y. She lifts up her T shirt, lowers her pants and watches obstetrician Liza Kunz squirt gel on her big, full belly. As the doctor slides a fetal heart monitor across her skin, Strong isn't the only one listening carefully for the reassuring sound of a baby's heartbeat. Gathered in the room with her are four equally pregnant women. They all arrived as a group to have their obstetrics checkup together...
...software industry is learning from the credit-card industry, which has digitized crime watching based on card users' behavior. Basically, the credit-card companies monitor your card patterns, and when something out of the ordinary happens--a card is used overseas, yet the cardholder rarely travels, for example--the alarm goes off. Is the cardholder really in London? It sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year...
...Harvard joined, the WRC would monitor the factories that produce Harvard insignia clothing to ensure that they are in compliance with Harvard’s code of conduct, which prohibits sweatshop conditions including excessive hours, forced overtime, health and safety violations, child labor abuse, poverty wages, discrimination, sexual harassment and efforts to prevent unionization. Factories would be under constant threat of investigation and loss of University contracts if they violated the code; and if such a threat did not deter abuse, the WRC would—as it has done reliably in the past—respond to worker complaints...
...also very difficult to monitor the food supply from the underground kitchen, according to Mayer...