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...government is drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to join the military. Army recruiters contend the aliens attempt to enlist, mistakenly believing they can obtain citizenship...
...only requirements seniors must fulfill in order to take an honors hourly are that the class lie within the field of concentration and that students obtain the course instructors' consent. Not all professors offer the option of senior honors hourlies...
They also nurture communal outrage at the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration, their latter-day Viet Cong, for making benefits difficult to obtain. Adrian Yurong, 45, who served about a year and a half with the 25th Infantry Division near the Viet Cong stronghold of Cu Chi, has been denied benefits because his job description shows he was a radar operator. Yurong, now known simply as Nano, was pressed into service, he says, as an infantryman throughout his tour. The VA grants that he has PTSD but says he must have contracted it elsewhere. Such arguments enrage V.F.W. activist Cowan...
...Jews to the country they consider their rightful home and the high cost that the influx is exacting. Longtime residents face stiff tax hikes, rent increases and competition for jobs. The new arrivals are finding themselves in lines almost as long as the ones back in the U.S.S.R. to obtain services from an overwhelmed bureaucracy. Many of the immigrants are educated far beyond the means of Israel's cramped economy to employ them, and face an uphill challenge to find suitable jobs -- or any jobs...
...first priority is to create an environment in which talented young people choose careers in health-sciences research, because without them our future will be blighted. My second priority would be to fashion a system in which talented, more senior researchers could obtain stable funding for their best work. Those two priorities cannot be achieved without setting some limits and making difficult choices...