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Governments and markets support a structure which allocates resources unequally to women, according to Heyzer. In South Korea, one of the world's fastest developing countries, women receive only 60 percent of male wages, she said...
...past 18 months, each weekly issue of Time has been available on the electronic newsstand of America Online, the fastest-growing of the commercial computer services. Since going online, our editors, writers and correspondents have been familiarizing themselves with yet another new journalistic venue: the ongoing exchange of real-time computer messages with our readers -- friend and foe alike...
...potential victim of all this convergence seems to be the industry supporting the CD-ROM, which is now the fastest-growing form of multimedia. A single 5-in.-diameter CD-ROM can hold everything from video games to a 21- volume encyclopedia. But within a decade, the millions of bits of information now stored on these discs will probably be piped into homes from video servers. That threat of eventual obsolescence, however, does little to alter projections of almost $10 billion a year in combined CD-ROM hardware and software sales in the interim...
...scan bar codes automatically as items are moved in or out of a shopping cart, thus enabling customers to keep a running tab. These carts might even be programmed to organize the customer's shopping expedition through the store, by scanning a handwritten list and sorting out the fastest route through the aisles...
...first event of the meet, the 200 medley relay, the previously undefeated Crimson (5-1 Ivy, 7-2 overall) came out strong. Freshman Stephanie Lawrence, senior co-captain Deborah Kory, freshman Mary Naber and freshman Keiko Iwahara recorded the fastest time of the season, setting the pace for the remainder of the meet...