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...more than 1,000 have been held in connection with Sept. 11, many on flimsy charges like visa expiration. Well, Zacarias Moussaoui, arrested in August, signed up for flight school in Minnesota to learn how to fly but not land or take off. He will not talk. Shall...
...biggest hassle of the business is getting work visas. In the U.S. it can take three months or more to clear a tech worker for an H-1B visa--almost the same time it takes to get an American worker into a European Union country. When Ericsson recently tried to bring a dozen Dataworkforce contractors from Britain to Dallas, the three-month wait stretched into five months and nearly killed the deal...
...meeting reaffirmed the world?s multilateral credentials after rioting activists two years ago forced the breakdown of the WTO?s Seattle meeting, which also attempted to launch a new trade round. This time, tough visa rules and tight security kept demonstrators away, and Sept. 11 appeared to encourage delegates to look beyond their own narrow horizons. So a deal was struck. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said the wto sent a powerful signal. "We have removed the stain of Seattle," he said. "We are helping to deliver growth, development and prosperity throughout the world...
...looked at this visa and thought: by the time I get across the border, the Taliban's domain probably won't be any bigger than this yellow stamp inside my passport. So the race was on to get across the border. Trouble was, I wasn't alone. There was a stampede of 200 other hacks, with their fixers, drivers translators and in some cases, cooks. The charge was led by the TV networks...
Just when Americans were starting to calm down about air travel, Subash Gurung decided to fly from Chicago to Omaha, Neb. The jobless Nepalese man, here on an expired visa, got through security at O'Hare airport last week with five knives, a stun gun and a container marked TEAR GAS/PEPPER SPRAY. After a search at the gate uncovered the weapons, Gurung was arrested but soon released on bond. He was taken into custody only when he returned to O'Hare to pick up another bag, filled with more knives. And in the story's grim punch line...