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...ordeal (she denies the woman in the video is her) has left a lot of Taiwanese with the creepy feeling that the environment is crawling with electronic eyes. A recent survey found that more than 40% of Taiwanese women won't use public toilets because they fear hidden cameras; nearly all of these women say delaying micturition has resulted in urinary tract infections. To ease concern, some police departments have been ordered to conduct twice-weekly sweeps of restrooms. Authorities have been flooded with so many phone calls from people convinced they are being taped that the government is holding...
...proposal that would raise the wages of all University janitors to a minimum of $11.35 per hour—a figure that will increase incrementally until it reaches $13.50 by 2005. Although we must commend the workers and all others who have been involved in this painstaking ordeal, we cannot quickly decree that victory and justice have come to Harvard. This whole process seems to suffer from a rather interesting paradox: There are more students than workers at Living Wage rallies yet more workers than students at Worker Appreciation...
Throughout his ordeal, Fox has retained the boyish charm and wit that made Alex P. Keaton, the cold-blooded capitalist, into a lovable older brother and a hero to quite a few children of the 1980s. Yet Fox is no longer the carefree sprite he used to be—and the show’s theme song now hits a little closer to home...
...Harvard faces intense opposition from neighborhood residents who call the tunnel intrusive. They say that digging the underground passageway—which would take two years to complete—would be a long and noisy ordeal...
...once he even had the lining pulled out of his suitcase. "Pilots can't complain or object because our airlines will discipline us or even fire us," he said. "As a pilot, the public trusts my skills, character and judgment to keep them safe, but it's becoming an ordeal even to get to the plane." Airport security most likely will only get tougher. To meet the deadline set by Congress late last year, Mineta will announce this week that starting Jan. 18, for the first time in history, U.S. airlines will search every bag put on a domestic aircraft...