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...Yugoslavia, despite all the blood spilled in the last century: we all want to join the European Union. It is not going to be easy, and E.U. Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn predicts that it might take the best part of the decade to get there. "Accession is no Eurostar train. It is more like a local train, chugging along," Rehn told Time. It may be a rusty collection of carriages pulled slowly along by a coal-fired engine, but it is on the right track. And, as the outcome in Montenegro proves, there is no going back...
...than 160 applied. We appointed about 40 students as full members of the SAB. The Board also includes guest members representing faculty, administrators, proctors, the FDO, the Bureau of Study Counsel, and the APO. The Board worked closely with the APO to shape the peer advising program, recruit and train peer advisers, create various materials for the Class of 2010, revise Board of Freshman Adviser training, and will continue to work with the office on all other initiatives and projects. The Committee on Advising and Counseling also advises the APO. (The membership and the report of the aforementioned committee...
...Americans are such gluttons. We consume the most oil in the world, with little regard for the planet. You want the price of gas to go down? Stop driving so much. Take the bus, ride a bike, take a walk, join a van pool, take the train. Buy hybrid cars, and trade in your Hummers and suvs. And once in a while, stay home. The natural order of the capitalist economy will take care of the rest. Then we can we stop blaming the oil companies, the government, the Arabs and the terrorists for the price of gas. Lee Kann...
...several months ago a representative from the Department of Homeland Security tested the system by trying to get a fake weapon through the screening checkpoint; he was successfully stopped by a STOP screener. The TSA will also consider deploying SPOT teams to other transportation systems like train and bus stations...
...Paulo state; between 800 and 1,000 more prisoners are jailed each month and the system is stretched to the breaking point. "We'd need to build a new prison each 15 days to hold these new inmates," Mazina said. "And then we'd need to hire and train people to run them. This is a country that doesn't have the fiscal or structural conditions to provide health, education or housing, so how can we invest massively in prisons...