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While the College trumpets the “limitless extracurricular opportunities” on the admissions office’s website, the proposed committee might restrict these opportunities as it reviews the approval process of student groups and encourages organizations that serve similar purposes to combine...
NUISANCES Aside from the noise and later the smell from the piles of dead insects, there is some evidence that cicada root sucking can restrict tree growth. And if you were planning to hold an outdoor wedding this month, you may want to reschedule it or move it indoors
...hardest--181,000 jobs lost by 2005, or 66% more than earlier projected. Other professions are not immune. About 20,000 legal jobs are expected to move abroad by 2005, a 41% jump over the previous estimate. McCarthy says he does not believe that state and federal proposals to restrict outsourcing will succeed. But companies may eventually be required to report offshoring to the Department of Labor, as they now do factory layoffs...
...kinds of possible genetic engineering in humans." Although the California measure would initially limit research to embryos less than 12 days old, Doerflinger contends it could lead to "the exploitation of women as 'fetus farms.'" Such arguments have persuaded eight states, including Iowa, Michigan and Kansas, to restrict therapeutic-cloning research. More dramatically, the U.S. House passed legislation last year that would make cloning human cells a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill stalled in the Senate, in part because of opposition from Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who is antiabortion yet favors stem-cell research...
...because they’re such a tech-savvy community, Penn and Princeton have similar guidelines, and even Yale has an ambiguous but not clearly prohibitive policy. And each is tailored to solve specific problems those universities see arising in the future: Princeton, for example, reserves the right to restrict student installations in any area once their own wireless devices are eventually installed there...