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...France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum shoppers-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants the legitimacy of many asylum claims to be determined before refugees start moving; he urged the E.U. to set up processing centers close to unstable countries and then distribute successful asylum candidates among member nations...
...MARK THOMPSON: A lot of people in the Pentagon are a little nervous. The President and his advisers believe it's time for a major overhaul of the U.S. military, including its weapons system. And he wants to skip a generation of weapons - in other words, develop some entirely new systems rather than making small improvements on existing ones - in order to prepare the military for a new century. And that obviously makes a lot of people in the Pentagon nervous, because many of them are worried about whether their favorite hobby horses would survive a reallocation of priorities...
...France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum ?shoppers?-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants the legitimacy of many asylum claims to be determined before refugees start moving; he urged the E.U. to set up processing centers close to unstable countries and then distribute successful asylum candidates among member nations...
...when did dynasties become so intolerable all of a sudden? The Yankees win four World Series titles in five years and just like that, everyone says the system needs an overhaul. As much as I hate the Yankees, I don't necessarily think their recent success signifies anything wrong with the system. This past season, the Yankees positively sucked it up during the regular season. They were ripe for the taking in the AL East by anyone who could post a measly 90 wins. New York's ultimate success was due less to their great cash reserves and more...
University and local officials secured more than $30 million in grants and helped overhaul the district's curriculum and teaching methods. Some schools wiped out uninspired drills and work sheets in the younger grades, and high schools began pushing students to take three years each of rigorous college preparatory math and science. Before UTEP stepped in, just a small percentage of students took Algebra II and Chemistry; now more than half do. Compared with 1994, when just one school in the university-aided districts netted an exemplary rating on state exams, last year 18 did. Most important, the university ascribes...