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...biggest reorganization of the Federal Government in a half-century. The new department, first proposed by the President last July, aims to bring 22 agencies and 175,000 employees, from border agents to biologists, under a single bureaucratic roof--and to do it before al-Qaeda tries to mount another attack. But the department is only beginning to pick up momentum. Since it opened its doors Jan. 24, only three out of a possible 23 appointees to the new department have received confirmation; most have not even been named...
...indicated that it would support a war only if the U.S. coughs up more than $30 billion in financial aid to Turkey, and gets UN authorization to assuage the country's overwhelmingly antiwar public opinion. The Turks have also insisted that the price tag for allowing the U.S. to mount an invasion from their territory includes Turkey's right to protect its own interests in Northern Iraq, where it may be on a collision course with local Kurdish leaders. Turkey is unconvinced by the case for war, but will make practical arrangements to secure its interests once war becomes inevitable...
Like Harvard, Northwestern University found it prohibitively expensive to wire its older dorms with cable for television. But while Harvard undergraduates are booking House television rooms and looking for south-facing windows to mount their satellite dishes, students at Northwestern are watching cable programming in their dorm rooms right...
...analysis of CNN have to rely on their own satellite dishes or House common room televisions that are each meant to serve hundreds of students. But installing satellite dishes is difficult and expensive—besides paying for the service, students have to find a south-facing location to mount their dish. Satellite reception is further hampered by University rules, found in the Handbook for Students, which forbid objects from being placed outside of dorm room windows...
...hiking boots to get up close and personal with the mountains. Departing from Kathmandu, many local airlines offer early morning mountain flybys along the Himalayan ridge. Buddha Air sends out two 16-seaters every morning, weather permitting. Each passenger sits beside a window, and as the plane nears Mount Everest, the friendly flight attendant brings each flyer up to the cockpit for a direct prospect. Not that Everest's neighbors are anything to sniff at: the hour-long flight takes in no less than five of the world's tallest peaks. A round-trip costs about $100; call...