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This is not to say that I would not be a fan of whatever new team was formed. If the new team were in Jakarta, the proximity thing might be an issue. But if the lucky city were in New Jersey, my adoration of the team's players and current makeup may make me a fan of the new team, holding the old one as distinct in my sports fan's heart...
...workers in there. Our inspectors try to manage, but it's a big beast." Overall, the lot of Indonesian workers is improving. Real wages increased 55% from 1990 to 1995, according to the World Bank. "This is a pretty decent story," says Dennis de Tray, a bank director in Jakarta...
DIED. SITI HARTINAH SUHARTO, 72, wife of Indonesian leader Suharto; of a heart attack; in Jakarta. "Madame Tien" was Suharto's closest adviser--unofficially dubbed "Tien Percent" for the cut she was rumored to receive from government contracts...
...massive undertaking by 1,500 scientists around the world, says that more than 30,000 species are endangered, most of them as a result of human activities. "Biodiversity represents the very foundation of human existence," says a summary of the report, released Tuesday at an international conference in Jakarta. "Yet by our heedless actions we are eroding this biological capital at an alarming rate." TIME's Andrea Dorfman points out that the study is a result of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the pact signed by 160 countries at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro...
...Japanese invasion. Hiroshima and Nagasaki remind us how innocent people become casualties of war-a war they may not want to support. At least the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped prevent what could have been the obliteration of humans on an even larger scale. CHANDRA DEWI KUMIA Jakarta, Indonesia