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...full extent of the stampede out of Iraq can be measured in yards, in the line that stretches down the block outside Baghdad's passport office. In Saddam Hussein's time, many professional Iraqis were restricted from traveling abroad. Now the crowd begins to gather at about 6 a.m., three hours before the office opens. By 3 p.m. one recent Tuesday, immigration officials had run out of the 1,800 travel documents they issue each day. The number of applicants is likely to soar during the next few weeks when new graduates rush to leave. "I guess that...
Alfred Hitchcock's passport and one of WILLIE WONKA'S ORIGINAL GOLDEN TICKETS are among items being offered at a private auction for the school's 75th anniversary
...bail hearing on Jan. 27, a police officer testified that Ramos had admitted to groping three to four women a week over the past five or six months. He was released on $1,000 cash bail on the conditions that he surrender his passport and stay away from the Harvard campus. Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Emily J. LaGrassa said that Ramos has failed to appear in court for recent hearings, probably because he remains in the custody of immigration officials...
...glass called Marinha Grande, or mglass. Drawing on the work of 18 local companies and 24 young designers, mglass is giving a modern marketing push to designs that hark back to their utilitarian past, produced using skills that still take a decade to learn. Pick up a Glass Route "passport" from local tourist offices which will get you into the Glass Museum and the factories to see glassmaking the old-fashioned way - and if you ask nicely you may get to blow it yourself...
...their high-tech border controls, claiming they would be sure to snare any known unsavory characters at the port of entry. Those boasts withered last week, however, in the face of revelations that Dumont slipped undetected in and out of the country four times on a fake French passport, while also being on an international wanted list. The possibility of such infiltration has added credence to the single explicit threat made against Japan by a purportedly al-Qaeda-affiliated group last November for Tokyo's decision to deploy 550 troops to southern Iraq...