Word: marches
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...last week--traversing miles of winding mountain roads afoot or on tractors or atop mules--the world seemed to have come apart. By week's end, according to the U.N., more than 300,000 refugees had crossed into neighboring Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro since the bombing campaign began on March 24. On Saturday, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said at least 200,000 to 300,000 more Kosovars were heading for the border. At the Montenegro boundary, one column of refugees awaiting entry extended in an unbroken line of misery for 20 miles. Late last week, fearing internal instability, Macedonia closed...
...happened like this. Just after 7 a.m. on the last Friday of March, a file called "Passcodes 3-26-99" appeared on alt.sex. On the surface, it seemed to be nothing more than a list of passwords for porn sites. But within hours, alarm bells began to ring. An automatic virus detector spotted Melissa, noting that she entered via e-mail from skyroket@aol.com The FBI enlisted America Online techies and scrambled their cybersabotage squads. Meanwhile, patrons of alt.comp.virus a newsgroup where virus writers and hunters hang out, morphed into virtual Baker Street irregulars...
...textile union, he and a group of friends pinpointed a factory in the Dominican Republic where workers earn just 69[cents] an hour making Michigan hats. They demanded that the university begin monitoring the production of Michigan clothing, which brought the school $5.7 million last year. In mid-March he and 29 classmates stormed into the university president's office. After a 51-hour sit-in, they emerged with a pledge by administrators to improve the conditions of workers who stitch Michigan apparel...
...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, say they discovered the sweatshop issue on their own, UNITE has clearly been helpful. After leading campus anti-sweatshop protests for two years, Traub-Werner got an invitation from UNITE to join a delegation on an all-expenses-paid visit in late March to a factory in Guatemala City...
Many of "Bill Gates' New Rules" [BOOK EXCERPT, March 22] for accelerating and improving business transactions are very appropriate and useful. However, Rule No. 5, "Convert every paper process to a digital process," is worrisome. Gates complains of "administrative processes that were too complicated and time-intensive." He could even swing some environmentalists to this rule because it would reduce paper consumption. However, the temptation to cut down on waste and the desire to transact efficiently cannot supersede the importance of having cold, hard documentation of highly valuable transactions. Let's not go too far in risking our rights...