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...there should be, according to the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a non-profit organization that monitors the labor conditions of factories that produce goods for more than 170 colleges and universities, including Harvard...
...Saudis believe that the U.S. won't try to go to war without them. But in the war rooms inside the Pentagon and at Central Command in Tampa, Fla., military strategists no longer think the U.S. needs the Saudis to dislodge Saddam. Strategists say a war against Iraq would require as many as 200,000 troops, with forces launching from Kuwait, Turkey and the smaller gulf emirates, reinforced by a massive U.S. Navy and Marine presence. The U.S. already has 10,000 Army troops at Kuwait's Camp Doha, where the Pentagon has stored tanks and other weapons. Some...
...greater American citizen. When his country needed him, he didn't shirk his duty, flying combat missions in two wars. The word hero is thrown around so much now that it has lost its true meaning. However, in the case of Williams, hero says it all. PAUL ROSKOWSKI Oviedo, Fla...
DIED. ALAN LOMAX, 87, folk-music collector who helped discover Woodie Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and others; in Sarasota, Fla. Described as "a missionary" by Bob Dylan, Lomax brought American folk music to the rest of the world, influencing the British skiffle craze of the 1950s, which gave rise to the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon...
...similar savings in the mass production of its Vistakon line of disposable contact lenses. At the time Johnson & Johnson was manufacturing contact lenses using a system that required multiple operators and took up the space of five single-file Greyhound buses. Kok visited the firm's factory in Jacksonville, Fla., and then--on an airline napkin--sketched an invention that would manufacture the lenses in a space about half a bus long, with only a single machine operator. To cut costs further, Kok and his team developed a way of quickly changing the many molds needed to cover the whole...