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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where can you go on such house-swap tours? Almost anywhere. The larger services offer as many as 11,000 listings, including just about every state in the U.S. and 30 or more countries, from Australia and the Czech Republic to Indonesia and South Africa. If you live in such popular U.S. tourist spots as Los Angeles, New York City or Miami, you may find yourself deluged with fabulous offers: a condo on the beach in Barcelona, a castlelike "cottage" in Burgundy. Sometimes the accommodations are more modest than what you're offering in exchange. But timing and location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Swapping | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...York City [ART, Oct. 11] reminds us that there is no easy answer to the question What is art? It often seems that the artistic talent shown in the newspaper's comic-strip section dwarfs many of the efforts of contemporary "artists." MICHAEL LUPPNOW Port Elizabeth, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1999 | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

This year the organizers also decided to include an international aspect to the conference, with the most prominent black labor leader in Europe--Bill Morris--giving the keynote speech, as well as inviting representatives from South Africa, Bermudas and Canada to attend...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Labor Leaders Convene at Harvard | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...came here to get a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the African-American labor movement...I want to learn what the commonalties they have with the situation we face in South Africa," said Ravi Naidoo, Director of the National Labour and Economic Development Institute in Johannesburg...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Labor Leaders Convene at Harvard | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...wear out our clothes. We wear them until the fashion's gone. Then we give them to Goodwill who sends them to Africa or Latin America or wherever, where they undermine local production." Crammed between a table overflowing with professionally worn-in long-sleeved T-shirts, and a rack of cargo pants, Schor declares: "We are drowning in clothes in America...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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