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Mighty America Online just signed up to help pass out the punch. Last week Wal-Mart and AOL confirmed plans to launch a co-branded, low-cost Internet service by next spring. In-store kiosks will help introduce shopping at wal-mart.com--and probably the new ISP--to the yet-untapped market strolling Wal-Mart's aisles...
Many homeless advocates believe that too little attention is being paid to an important contributing factor--the gentrification of inner-city real estate, which has all but eliminated low-cost housing in recent years. In New York City, 216,000 households are on the waiting list for federally subsidized affordable housing. "It will take more than 50 years to empty that list," laments Patrick Markee, an analyst for the Coalition for the Homeless...
...have escape hatches to let the turtles swim away. Congress has adopted such a ban, but the WTO forbids it; member nations can't block imports on the basis of the way they are produced. The organization may also eventually forbid American "antidumping" laws that bar the import of low-cost foreign steel. Those laws are important to American unions. The WTO used the same logic in siding with the U.S. against European nations that wanted to prohibit the import of American beef fed with hormones that Europeans believe may be unsafe...
Regardless of the controversial nature of some of its shows, CCTV members say the station provides a great introduction to video and television production. CCTV offers classes in video production and computer technology, and free or low-cost access to production equipment...
...idea of having a non-elected body with the power to overrule democratically elected governments on issues of environmental protection and labor rights. For example, environmentally motivated U.S. restrictions on importing shrimp caught with nets that endanger sea turtles have been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well as conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, who traditionally oppose international organizations' having any jurisdiction over the U.S., want the organization disbanded. Others want to transform it to incorporate...