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...federal government cannot agree on a way to seal U.S. borders against illegal immigrants, Mayor Lou Barletta figures he can at least draw a line at the borders of his small northeastern Pennsylvania city of Hazleton...
...being beneath. How useful counselors are may depend as much on the attitude of the client as the approach of the counselor. "Some of them are very helpful and are helping students learn how to tell us about themselves," says Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, in a rare defense of the breed. "I don't think it's fair to say they're all negative...
...biggest problems, however, may be ethical and constitutional. For now, improved lie detection is likely to have broad public support. But what about when it reaches more surreptitiously into our lives? Biophysicist Britton Chance of the University of Pennsylvania has explored ways to use infrared light projected from a distance to penetrate the skull, looking for signs of stress similar to the ones fMRIs detect. Both that and remote periorbital thermography could be used undetectably in airport lines to spot high-stress passengers. Whether that stress is caused by the bomb you're concealing or the fact you're running...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly announced that parent company "Argenbright Holdings continues to violate laws that protect the safety of Americans who travel by commercial airlines." Ashcroft based his comments on a 1999 guilty plea and agreement Argenbright had made with the federal government when a screener at a Pennsylvania airport was busted for drug possession, which led to evidence that other screeners had faulty immigration paperwork, lax training and even faked test scores. The manager of that region was fired and later jailed...
...slow course of the investigation has muted some of the fury that reached a peak last May when Congressman John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania with longtime ties to the military who has turned against the Iraq War, claimed that the Marines in Haditha had "killed in cold blood." Murtha too is facing a civil lawsuit for defamation from SSgt Wuterich, but he has not backed off his remarks...