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...jobs in jeopardy.And with immigration reform efforts stalled on Capitol Hill, relief may be a long time coming.Some international students in the Class of 2006 were unable to apply for the H-1B visas required to seek employment in the United States because they did not receive the necessary proof of graduation until after the visa quota was filled.Previously, the annual quota had not filled up until long after Harvard’s June Commencement ceremonies—students in the class of 2005 faced a deadline of Aug. 10. But last year, U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS...
...marketplace of ideas,” open publication will create a morass from which science might not emerge. Results will be duplicated, communication retarded, and progress slowed to a standstill. Proponents of open publication who point to advances such as Grigori Perelman’s recent proof of the Poincaré conjecture, which was posted online instead of submitted to a journal, fail to realize that such instances are the exception rather than the rule. True, the traditional peer review process is not perfect. It delays the flow of information, can sometimes be biased, and often unduly prioritizes the work...
...better prepared. We are safer." JOHN NEGROPONTE, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, responding to critics who cited a leaked National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) as proof that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorist threat. The NIE?portions of which were declassified last week?calls the war a jihadist "cause c?l?bre...
...Conspiracy theorists know they have nothing. Press them for solid proof, and they claim they are just asking questions. Most conspiracies follow the same pattern. All evidence and expert testimony backing up the official story is "fake" or "planted," while the lack of evidence backing up the conspiracy theory is merely "proof" that the evidence is being covered up. With no structural engineers or demolition experts backing up the conspiracy nonsense, the theorizers rely instead on a cast of characters who are nuttier than squirrel dung. They make for good comedy, if nothing else. Jan Burton Toronto...
...French politics," says Rgine Lemoine-Darthois, co-author of a recent book about women of Royal's generation titled An Age Called Desire. "She holds up a mirror to French women that they find very agreeable: to knock men dead while being a woman of power. She's proof that you don't have to abandon your femininity to make it." At a campaign meeting in Paris earlier this year, a man told Royal she looked good. "You're not too bad yourself," she retorted, bringing down the house...