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...more than sartorial preference. This is the fashion statement of a certain neurological perspective?even if they aren't 'shrooming themselves, they are channeling the subculture. The lucky ones might have their pictures snapped by a roving photographer for a magazine like Fruits or Kera, two youthful publications that document Tokyo street fashion with uncompromising detail for a suburban readership hungry for news about the antics of Tokyo's crazy in-crowd...
UNITED NATIONS A Battle Plan for the Fight Against AIDS After listening to three days of calls for greater efforts to tackle the AIDS pandemic, more than 180 delegates at a special U.N. General Assembly meeting approved an ambitious Declaration of Commitment. The document, which identifies AIDS as a global political, human-rights and economic threat, committed countries to reduce HIV infection by 25% among young men and women by 2005. Countries will also have to increase access to condoms, expand aids testing and provide sterile equipment for drugs users. Twenty million people have died since the disease was discovered...
...general search engines, don't write them off just yet. AltaVista last month unveiled search and retrieval software that can handle more than 200 different file formats on company intranets. Over the past few weeks, Google has begun indexing text held in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format (pdf) and has added five years' worth of postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with...
Read “Grader’s Reply” as Historical Document...
...Foreign companies are generally not required to participate in the crackdown, but working for foreigners is not always a haven for Falun Gong members. Indiana-based Cummins Inc., for instance, complied with state orders to investigate workers at its engine factory in Beijing, putting its company stamp on a document for police stating that no employees practice Falun Gong. Had it found practitioners, however, "the government would have wanted us to report them, so we would have," says a company spokesperson. Chen Gang began working in 1996 for a joint venture of Carlsberg Breweries, the Danish brewer, and quickly rose...