Word: yemen
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...more restrictive policies toward travel abroad adopted this semester by the College, students are now barred from visiting countries including Lebanon, Nigeria and Yemen as well as 23 others on Harvard’s buck. Moreover, the policies prohibit the College from granting any academic credit for study abroad experiences there? While there are valid concerns about the risks inherent in traveling to some of these locations, we regret that at a time when the College is trying to encourage international experiences, it has put insurance considerations ahead of pedagogy...
Pace wrote that Harvard’s policy barred him from going to Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen or Iran...
...difficult?crude oil does not catch fire easily, for example?but it's not too hard to blast a hole in one so that its cargo is released, creating a maritime disaster. There's also the economic impact. When the oil tanker Limburg was attacked off the coast of Yemen in October 2002, insurance costs for calls to the country's ports rose by some $150,000 per ship. Such a situation would force shipping companies to make long detours around the strait, notes Dominic Armstrong, research chief for the London-based security firm Aegis Defence Services and author...
...HOSPITALIZED. MOHAMED ALANSSI, 52, Yemeni-born businessman and FBI informant; after setting himself on fire at the front gates of the White House; in Washington, D.C. Alanssi had recently told the Washington Post that he was upset at being unable to return to Yemen to see his ailing wife because the FBI was holding his passport until he testifies in a coming terrorism trial. He was listed as being in a critical condition with burns over 30% of his body...
Yang Hua's passport is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali disco bombing in 2002. He has logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar as well as the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. And Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. In fact, they're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels like SAUDI SWEET. Yang, it turns out, works...