When Qureshi was released on a temporary visa, the Australian government presented him with a bill for his stay: $14,250. "Making matters worse, the terms of his visa prohibit him from working in Australia."--Los Angeles Times.

Check out these numbers--In 1980, there were 143,000 Black men in jails and prisons and 463,700 in colleges and universities. By the year 2000, there were more Blacks in jail than on campuses: 791,600 behind bars and 603,032 attending colleges or universities. That’s according to the Justice Policy Institute as reported by the New York Times.

Also, between meals?--"Companies stretch time between pay raises."--News headline.

‘Reality 101’--Mohammad Sayed and Omar Zazia are émigrés from Afghanistan and U.S. citizens who have filed a federal damage suit against an Orange County, California, movie chain. They and two friends were ejected from one of the movies because they looked "suspicious" and spoke in a foreign tongue.

Almost a stereotype--Former Enron exec Michael Kopper, who illegally pocketed $12 million, will return the bundle and is expected to testify for the prosecution. A former college classmate offered a thumbnail sketch that seemed to fit the pattern. "Very motivated by money," she said, "Always kind of knew how to get ahead without doing much work."

Better, try some coal miners--Q: What are the rights of working people to say no to a hazardous situation?

A: The right not to get hurt or die doesn’t mean an employee can simply walk off the job when danger lurks. The employee must make efforts to give the employer a chance to correct the condition.... Although it looks as though the material was written by a life form on a distant planet, the Occupational Health & Safety Administration is the place to go to read about your safeguards for dangerous jobs.--Des Moines Iowa Register.

Free-market flying--At Chicago’s O’Hare airport, more than 85 percent of the flights are those of American and United airlines.

At their tender mercy--"Geron Corp. won a U.S. patent for technology to develop immune-system-based cancer therapies, news that sent the technology company’s stock up 15 percent."--Bloomberg business news service.

Sure. With a clean system--"Denver, Colorado--Too few textbooks. Too little advice on applying for college. Internships that never materialized, classes that were never offered. Those are just some of the complaints a group of Denver students have about a reform effort at the former Manual High. Under the reform, the 1,100-student school was divided into three academies. The idea was to embrace research that shows that students learn better in smaller, more intimate settings. But in the report, Struggling to Succeed, a group of young organizers...said the division of Manual into three schools reinforced racial and ethnic differences without delivering on promises."--Rocky Mountain News.  
 
 
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