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...status to illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. since 1977 or earlier. It grants those who have been here since 1980 temporary resident status. Some liberal-minded supporters of the bill speak glowingly of the amnesty plank, saying that it will end the negative social and economic sub-culture in which illegals are forced to exist. But in reality, it would have little effect Legalized immigrants would be ineligible for federal programs such as food stamps. Medicaid, and Aid to Dependent Children, allowing the spiral of poverty among undocumented workers to continue...
...finale of Clockwork Testament (1975), Visiting Professor Enderby succumbed to a weak heart and culture shock on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Yet now ("to placate kind readers" who objected, Burgess maintains in a sub-subtitle) he pops up again...
Cornell said the telescope is the center's response to a national need in astronomy to advance the study of unexplored regions and stellar occurrences using "sub-millimeter waves"--radiation with a wavelength of less than a millimeter. "This is the spearhead of a national drive in astrophysics to advance study in this area," he said...
...objects emit radiation, but not all radiation is visible, and sub-millimeter waves cannot be seen with the naked eye. Moreover, sub-millimeter waves do not even reach Earth because they are absorbed by water vapor in the atmosphere...
Currently, a number of other universities are planning to build single sub-millimeter telescopes. But by using six telescopes, the center's plan would allow them to attain anywhere from 10 to 100 times the resolution of single telescope plans, Cornell said...