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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...protesters were demanding that their schools withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Stage Sweatshop Protests at Colleges Nationwide | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

...protesters charge the FLA is too closely tied to corporate interests to protect workers. Administrators counter the WRC is too loosely organized to be effective...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Stage Sweatshop Protests at Colleges Nationwide | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

Everyday life can excel as a brain gym where you are your own personal trainer. At 72, Harold Gallay of Clearwater, Fla., has a memory as keen as that of a man half his age, rattling off sports statistics and regularly besting his four grown children at Trivial Pursuit. For years, he and his wife Leona, 71, have played bridge, done daily crossword puzzles, read newspapers cover to cover and discussed current news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak, Memory | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Florida, where he earned his Ph.D. in zoology, Pritchard, 56, has done superb scientific research. But even more impressive is his campaign to make turtles as popular as Mickey Mouse. Appropriately, his new, privately funded Chelonian Research Institute, for the study and preservation of turtles, is located in Oviedo, Fla., just a half-hour drive from Disney World. Pritchard shares observations with celebrity tortoise lovers such as Queen Elizabeth II, helps South American Indians raise chickens so they won't hunt turtles, and writes children's books in addition to academic papers. "Turtles have big, gentle eyes and a slight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETER PRITCHARD: Tickled About Turtles | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Ryan said Harvard has no immediate plans to withdraw from the FLA and join...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Gets Support From Council to Persuade Harvard to Exit the FLA | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

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