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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Therefore, a non-U.S. resident, jobless student like me has no means of getting a SSN. Yet those unattainable and elusive nine digits seem to haunt me wherever I go.SSN’s are not absolutely necessary. However, the alternative to the SSN is tedious and burdensome—foreign students without SSN’s have to submit a handful of forms and I.D.’s such a passport, F-1 visa, student I.D., birth certificate, and two to three proofs of current address, when just nine digits would do. Cell phone companies, for example...

Author: By June Hwang, | Title: Social Insecurity Number | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...situation where the United States was in jeopardy, and because of that, he had to go through a process to ensure that the country would stay together." Moments before, an American reporter's eagerness to be called on provided a light moment during a serious and even tedious session. White House press secretary Scott McClellan, standing in the wings with his South Korean counterpart, called on Caren Bohan of Reuters to ask the second question from the U.S. David E. Sanger of The New York Times, the press corps' leader in covering North Korean nuclear issue, was so intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Stay on Script in South Korea | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...durable than any marketing campaign. Similarly, extra glazing for windows to provide better insulation would go a lot further than buying wind energy for a few weeks a year. Essentially, the HGCI is not so much about making a difference as making statements, and it is all the more tedious...

Author: By Alexander Turnbull | Title: ‘Green’ Campus Efforts Should Focus On Infrastructure | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you regain terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at just over 9 m above the terminal deck, so that friends and relatives can take pictures. The flight home by Boeing or Airbus may seem interminably tedious by comparison. www.fightercombat.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Heads | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...more eye-popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you rejoin terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at 30 feet above the terminal deck, so that friends and relatives can take pictures. The flight home by Boeing or Airbus may seem interminably tedious by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diversions | 11/12/2005 | See Source »

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