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	APA Judge Grants Screeners Temporary Victory If you were wondering when the law would come into play for those beleaguered airport baggage screeners, we finally got some legal maneuvering last week. You’ll recall that right after Sept. 11, Congress was so eager to deal with the threat of terror that it put the airports under federal authority, with the Aviation Transportation Security Act. That in turn put all the screening under the control of the feds. But it came with a strange requirement: All screeners had to be U.S. citizens. Of the 28,000 screeners nationwide who were let go, then forced to reapply for their jobs, 8,000 were non-citizens. They were barred from applying for jobs they had done for years... FULL STORY...		A New Nightmare: Cambodian American Deportation Carries History’s Weight (Feature) Local and National Reports Document Sept. 11 Backlash (in National News) Airport Screeners Pick Up Final Paychecks (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Inside the Twilight Zone (in Business) Mark Chung: American Soccer’s Coolest Man (in Sports) ‘Bollywood/Hollywood’ Celebrates Double Vision (in A&E) Emil Amok: APA Judge Grants Screeners Temporary Victory (in Opinion)

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Floss Talk: Taking It One Step at a Time So it’s down to those last days before the application deadlines for colleges — most applications are due Nov. 30. Actually, applications should be in way before then, because the filing period began on the first of this month. Unlike others at my school who began on their personal statements in the beginning of summer, I waited until the start of school to start to ponder about what I should write. Then the stress came on full force as time passed faster and faster and the due date approached...

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