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These are just a few of the signs of an Internet culture blossoming in Latin America, unevenly, in patchwork fashion, but in an accelerating rush. In just two years, the region has become the Internet world's next big thing. Though its connectivity rates are still low in comparison with the U.S.'s--only about 2% of Latin America's 500 million people are online, while more than half of Americans are--telecommunications analysts say it is the fastest-growing market in the world. They predict that by 2003 the networked region will reach anywhere from 29.6 million...
...patchwork alliance of anti-IMF demonstrators has brought business-as-usual in Washington grinding to a halt, but its impact insidethe corridors of power may be more diffuse. The federal government Monday gave its employees who work in the vicinity of the World Bank and IMF headquarters the day off, as police continued to battle mostly peaceful protesters challenging the international financial system and demanding debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Heavy-handed policing has, however, for the most part allowed the annual meetings of the bank and fund to proceed unmolested. Still, images of riot policemen dragging...
...study of more than 44,000 families by the Urban Institute shows that about a third of them lash together at least two child-care arrangements (8% of families use three or more), including day-care centers, sitters, neighbors, friends and family. Sound familiar? This patchwork is difficult enough for 9-to-5 workers, but in an economy in which more and more businesses work 24/7, parents who work "nonstandard" hours and weekends have an even harder time finding acceptable child care. Any family facing the child-care crunch knows there will be times when the patches don't hold...
...when Harvard was launching Project ADAPT, CSU began a similar effort to replace its patchwork of aging information systems. While Harvard chose Oracle to provide the base software package, CSU selected Oracle's competitor, PeopleSoft...
Cryos has benefited from a bewildering patchwork of European rules governing sperm donation. In Britain, for example, the law dictates that a single donor can father only 10 children. In Denmark, whose population of 5 million is less than one-tenth of Britain's, the limit is 25. In Austria and Sweden, laws allow children conceived through sperm donation to seek the identity of their parents when the children reach age 18. Denmark, however, has more sweeping protection of donor anonymity: Cryos does not maintain a record of its donors' names, using a coded identification number instead. According to Schou...