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...path to citizenship for illegal aliens who entered the country as children and who either complete two years of higher education or serve in the military. Both provisions were also part of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a law sponsored by Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin which failed last October. The legislation is expected to be introduced in similar form, and the bill’s proponents say they are confident of victory. “We’ve got McCain and we’ve got a few others,” Reid...
...research began when BU biology professor Richard B. Primack ’72 was revising his textbook on conservation biology and his section on climate change “kept on getting bigger and bigger...
Most prison cell-phone incidents, however, raise serious security concerns. Texas death-row inmate Richard Tabler allegedly used a smuggled cell phone in recent weeks to make threatening calls to Texas state senator John Whitmire, chairman of a key criminal jurisprudence committee. The calls were among 2,800 made in just one month from cell phones used by Tabler and nine of his fellow death-row inmates. After Whitmire alerted state prison authorities to the calls, the high-security East Texas prison was locked down and searched. Authorities found Tabler's phone hidden in the ceiling above a shower. They...
...because of human activity. A 2008 report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded that half of the U.S. reef ecosystem is in poor or fair condition and it foresees no improvement in the future. "Reefs all over the world and in the U.S. are suffering," says Dr. Richard Dodge, dean of Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, Fla. Vessel-related damage continues to be a big problem, and the two latest incidents are just "one more nail in the coffin...
...judge ruled Nov. 20 that the Bush administration's case against five Algerians (first detained in Bosnia) was too weak to prevent their release. The hearing followed a June Supreme Court ruling giving the men the right to argue against their detention in court. In a rare move, Judge Richard Leon urged the government not to appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody. He is appealing.) TIME spoke to one of the case's lead defense...