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...inability to guard its border with Iraq while the U.S. has been unable to secure its own border with Mexico? Why should Syria, which opposed the war, put all its efforts toward securing a border that is being used as a passageway into Iraq for insurgents? We should strengthen our own borders before we bully other nations. Gabriel E. Sarah Tucson, Arizona...
...relations, declined to comment on SLAM’s demands because the negotiations are ongoing.Murphy says SLAM has not contacted his office.But SLAM also intends to address issues facing the security guards and dining hall workers on Harvard’s campus, Gould-Wartofsky says.SLAM, he says, hopes to strengthen the prospects of a union for the security guards subcontracted to the University through AlliedBarton Security Services by demanding that Harvard require a card-check neutrality agreement prohibiting anti-union activity from all its subcontractors.Snegroff says that the SEIU local—which is presently undertaking efforts to organize...
...Campus social life is certainly worth supporting,” Corker writes in an e-mail. “A strong sense of community and a vibrant social life strengthen both the undergraduate experience and the College as a whole...
...control for the possibility that subjects who knew they were receiving some medication might change their lifestyle in ways that would improve their health and consequently strengthen their bones, Scranton gave some patients statins and others lipid-lowering therapy, so that “they would change their life too,” Scranton said. Scranton found that patients taking lipid-lowering therapy were 32 percent more likely to fracture a bone, so he concluded that statins must be accountable for the discrepancy...
...address, De Vries insisted on the importance of sharing information among collaboration nations like the E.U. Such collaboration, he says can help strengthen local border controls to keep terrorist cells from taking root. Since accepting his present position in March 2004, De Vries said, he has also tried to get the E.U. nations to collaborate on statistical analysis and to work toward greater judicial consistency through common arrest warrants. He cited the capture of a London bombing suspect in Italy as evidence of success in the latter program...