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Live Aid has demonstrated to the world that it is possible to transcend political and geographical barriers to conquer apathy and alter the course of humanity. Geldof should be named TIME's Man of the Year. Perhaps the world would be better off if our leaders carried guitars instead of briefcases. Lisa Christine Scott Riverside, Calif...
While companies are reluctant to admit that they have been targets of dirty tricks, experts say that such crimes are on the increase. The potential for disaster is frightening. Software sabotage could alter data in computers at banks and stock brokerages or send false signals to air traffic controllers. That could mean the loss of millions of dollars or hundreds of lives...
...exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form was fixed by the 13th century and did not alter much in the next 600 years. Instead, the helmet--his secondary emblem of power--could mean anything its owner wanted. It was as personal, in that sense, as the poetry whose writing was also one of the skills of an educated warlord...
With a matter of hours to go, members of the Crimson Dance Team (CDT) got out their scissors. They had Thursday afternoon to alter their expensive costumes and the choreography that had been drilled into their minds and bodies since January...
...rate shows no signs of declining, despite government measures to encourage temporary foreign workers to return home, early-retirement schemes and vocational-training programs. For Giersch, the root cause of the problem is an excessively rigid labor system that discourages workers from accepting job or salary changes. Proposals to alter this situation, he adds, meet resistance from both unions and government. Said Giersch: "Flexibility is polemically denounced as Americanization or a return to 19th century capitalism with the ugly face of exploitation...