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Most notably, the bill would impose a six-month moratorium on new student visas to foreign students. It would also encourage the INS to implement a long-planned electronic system to track the half-million foreign students studying in the U.S. Currently, there is no consistent system of making sure students don’t overstay their visas and no way to enforce their legal obligations regarding academic work...
...also nearly always pay full tuition. In California alone last year, 66,000 foreign students paid colleges nearly $700 million in tuition and fees. But after the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago, the open door may start closing. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, suggested a six-month moratorium on the issuance of student visas. Even the American Council on Education, a lobbying group that represents most of the nation's colleges, recognizes that student visa policy will have to change. Says senior vice president Terry Hartle: "We all realize the government will and should be looking at this...
...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend its three-month moratorium on controversial “recombinant DNA” research at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an additional three months...
...Council’s original resolution to initiate a recombinant DNA research moratorium in June followed considerable local and national debate on the potential environmental consequences of such research...
...clich of gaining perspective means something. As the nation mourns, the cynicism that marked the pro sports world before the events of two weeks ago is experiencing a moratorium of sorts...