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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...However, the historical prominence of an industry should have little bearing on current policy. Rep. Dennis Kucinivich (D-Ohio) compared the quota to administration efforts to open Europe's markets to bananas, but his arguments at times verged on the absurd: "Bananas did not build America. Steel did...We cannot build a tank with a banana, we cannot build a plane with a banana, we cannot build ships with a banana. We did not build cars with bananas. We did not build bridges with bananas. We did not build America with bananas. We built America with steel...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Keeping Steel Fetters Off Trade | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Regardless of the rationale behind the limited discourse about sexual health issues on campus, the dangers of sexually transmitted infections cannot be underestimated. According to the US Public Health Service, over 33,000 Americans become infected with an STI each day. At least one in four Americans will contract an STI some time in their lives. Some viral STIs including genital herpes and genital warts can be transmitted via skin-to-skin contact, and are incurable. In up to 75 percent of individuals infected with chlamydia (the most common STI on college campuses), gonorrhea, and/or other bacterial infection, symptoms never...

Author: By David Chao, | Title: Taking the Initiative | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...aerials on the roof. Inside is a small bedroom. "You see this?" he asks, pointing to a closet with a mirror on the front. "Inside, there is a secret trapdoor into the basement. When you are a soldier, you have to know the ways of escape." He regrets he cannot go to restaurants; he fears assassination too much. Last year an attempt was made on his life in a northern town, using remote-controlled rockets. "In a way I am living in a prison without walls," he tells TIME. Within the compound, he often works till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Survival of the Paranoid | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...ordered the killings, but some of his lieutenants are widely feared: victims have been found with eyes gouged out or hands cut off, clearly tortured before they were killed. Says Christophe Peschoux of the U.N. Human Rights office in Phnom Penh: "It is the chronic problem of Cambodia. They cannot manage conflict. Either they use intermediaries, or they reach for the gun. They cannot sit down and discuss differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Survival of the Paranoid | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...Khmer Rouge taught Hun Sen fear, and they taught it well. In the end, it is fear that stands between Hun Sen and the trials. "If we just kill these people, will we have peace?" he asks. But if he waits too long, fear will become his epitaph. Cambodia cannot wait forever for justice. "This is the only chance we have to set up a system so people will respect the law," says Youk Chhang, head of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which has been compiling records of Khmer Rouge killings. "How can you walk away from 1.7 million lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Survival of the Paranoid | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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