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  • Indian-American students among the brightest in the US

    07/29/2004 1:12:56 PM PDT · by ScarTissue · 43 replies · 656+ views
    Rediff.com ^ | 7/20/04 | Unknown
    As many as 60 per cent of the United States' top science students and 65 per cent of those who excelled in mathematics are children of immigrants, a new study has found. Foreign-born high school students make up 50 per cent of the 2004 US Math Olympiad top scorers, 38 per cent of the US Physics Team and 25 per cent of Intel Science Talent Search finalists, America's most prestigious awards for young scientists and mathematicians, the study said. -------------------------------------------------------- "These findings provide evidence that maintaining an open policy toward skilled professionals, international students, and legal immigration is vital to...
  • US Arabs raising money to back Bush

    02/18/2004 11:53:34 AM PST · by ScarTissue · 2 replies · 141+ views
    New York Times ^ | 2/17/03 | Leslie Wayne
    Wealthy Arab-Americans and foreign-born Muslims who strongly back President Bush's decision to invade Iraq are adding their names to the ranks of Pioneers and Rangers, the elite Bush supporters who have raised $100,000 or more for his re-election. This new crop of fund-raisers comes as some opinion polls suggest support for the president among Arab-Americans is sinking and at a time when strategists from both parties say Mr. Bush is losing ground with this group. Mr. Bush has been criticized by Arab-Americans who feel they are being singled out in the fight against terrorism and who are uneasy over the...
  • Putin calls demise of USSR 'tragedy'

    02/13/2004 9:49:55 AM PST · by ScarTissue · 25 replies · 239+ views
    MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- President Vladimir Putin used a campaign speech Thursday to declare the demise of the Soviet Union a "national tragedy." Putin, a former agent of the KGB spy agency, has praised aspects of the Soviet Union before but never so robustly nor in such a major political setting. "The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale," from which "only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained," Putin said in a televised speech to about 300 campaign workers at Moscow State University.