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...RFID readers that will eventually allow them to communicate with products bearing smart tags. Washers, for instance, will be programmed to read clothing labels for cleaning instructions. But that vision had a setback last spring, when Benetton nixed RFID tagging for its Sisley line because privacy groups threatened a boycott. Benetton is still determined to use RFID for inventory, hoping to replicate a system in place at Prada's New York Epicenter store. Sales personnel there can search inventory without leaving clients, thanks to RFID tags. Next year Prada hopes to roll out RFID in its new Beverly Hills store...
...Proliferation John Bolton issued a blistering attack on North Korea's leader, calling him a "tyrannical dictator" who has subjected his people to a "hellish nightmare." Administration officials defended Bolton's remarks even after the North Koreans responded with some vicious verbal salvos of their own and threatened to boycott the Beijing talks if Bolton was a delegate. Still, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage announced Tuesday that Bolton would not, in fact, be sent to the talks. The last thing Washington wants to do is give the notoriously fickle North Koreans a pretext for staying away...
...plan to kill 38 minke whales for "scientific research"; the WWF charged that the plan is really a front to resume commercial whaling, which the country is considering after 2006. Whale watching draws about 62,000 visitors to Iceland every year and there are fears that tourists may now boycott the country. European Heroes: Whale Of An Opportunity Brassed Off SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO The country's top military committee, the Supreme Defense Council, dismissed 16 senior generals in a bid to rid the military of high-ranking personnel affiliated with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The dismissals are meant...
Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions. They allege that nine Coca-Cola bottling employees have been murdered over the past 12 years. Union leaders accuse bosses of allowing paramilitaries access to the plants...
...COLOMBIA Soft Drink, Hard Times Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions...