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What the legislation is likely to do even sooner is put the CIA's secret-prison program back online. That's right: back online. Although when he revealed its existence, the President left the impression he had suspended the program in response to a June Supreme Court ruling, that's not so. What neither he nor Congress nor the CIA has publicly acknowledged is that the agency halted the "special interrogations" in its secret prisons more than nine months ago. People briefed on the matter tell TIME that the agency backed away from its program in December 2005 as Congress...
...wide range of prices. Some of these cost-saving innovations by publishers include online texts and e-books, one- or two-color editions, and abbreviated, soft-cover editions. The new and expanding range of technologies are helping more students pass their courses, stay in school and graduate sooner, saving them time and money while improving their success rates. In addition, faculty members are the ones choosing the textbooks, based on what they believe is best for their students’ education. According to a recently released Zogby International study, professors are requiring the materials they believe can help their students...
...bottom quarter and bottom half of the income distribution.” He, and many others, feel that wealthy students have an advantage in applying early. With thousands of dollars to spend on consultants, essay editors, and test preparation, wealthy students can prepare to play the admissions game sooner, faster, and better than less privileged students. Despite the fact that extra time will not give disadvantaged students more resources and better counseling, it will be very valuable. Wealthy students at elite private schools often begin planning for college in their sophomore or junior year, whereas high schools which send...
...armed conflict doesn't mean they won't stumble into one anyway. And for all the good arguments against any war now, much less this one, there are just as many indications that a genuine, eyeball-to-eyeball crisis between the U.S. and Iran may be looming, and sooner than many realize. "At the moment," says Ali Ansari, a top Iran authority at London's Chatham House, a foreign-policy think tank, "we are headed for conflict...
...DAKOTA Native American men residing here fare the worst, on average living only to age 58 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Life expectancy for counties immediately east and west of the Mississippi River is 76.6 and 77.2, respectively APPALACHIA AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Low income whites here die on average four years sooner than their neighbors in the rural Northern Plains...