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...students outside the building speak about the need for Harvard to live up to its responsibility as a member of the Cambridge community. They burn with the idealism of youth, even in the cold morning hours...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: How Long Must We Wait? | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...Zackie Achmat is a dangerous man - to those he sees as perpetrators of injustice. Always has been. Because once he decides to challenge them, he knows no half-measures. At age 14, he tried to burn down his school during the 1976 Soweto uprising against apartheid education. And that was just the opening act of a teenage activist career that saw him leave high school well acquainted with apartheid's prison cells and with the knuckles of its security policemen. He spent the next two decades as a tireless activist in the struggle to end apartheid, and once that struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South African AIDS Activist Zackie Achmat | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

...better time with Mac OS X. But that's probably because I didn't have occasion to do any of the following: burn a CD, watch a DVD or use a service called AOL. (When each will work with OS X: later this month, this summer and later this summer, respectively.) My Mac headache--a doozy--came when I tried to set up a wireless Airport connection between my OS X machine and the other Macs I own, which run OS 9. You guessed it: more conference calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Works in Progress | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...eager to expand in the Latin American market. Bell Canada International works in Mexico and four South American countries but chafes at "buy local" rules and tariffs. "We'd love to be able to buy the right communications network equipment from wherever it is best," says spokesman Peter Burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond NAFTA: Oranges For Bulldozers | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...More substantively, Vice President Cheney has been heading up an energy task force that is due to issue recommendations in May. Along with calling for increased oil exploration in Alaska and new oil and gas pipelines, the panel's recommendations may include research into cleaner ways to burn coal. Significantly, the team is also expected to suggest renewed construction of nuclear power plants, which put out no carbon but generate extremely radioactive waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: A Climate Of Despair | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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