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...hoped to gain from this announcement was the fact that Coke would only subsidize half the cost of such treatment, expecting its bottlers and workers to foot the rest of the bill. For smaller bottlers, such an option is unaffordable, especially considering Coke’s stated intention to phase out its subsidization over time. Even with recent expansion of its coverage, 56 percent of its bottling employees are without comprehensive coverage. If Coke is going to use AIDS as its latest marketing tool and promise to do all it can, it must provide full coverage to its entire workforce...
...work of Muslim extremists belonging to the Southeast Asian group Jemaah Islamiah, which the U.S. believes is closely linked with al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. And al-Qaeda, CIA Director George Tenet said in congressional testimony last week, is now in "execution phase." Indeed, senior U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME that they fear a recent spate of terrorist attacks around the world may be a warm-up for a much bigger strike against American interests. Al-Qaeda prisoners now being interrogated, says a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, "keep talking about a spectacular event...
...Many nations go through a motorbike phase, but "It's happened much faster (in Vietnam) than in almost any other country," says Charles Melhuish, a Manila-based transportation specialist with the Asian Development Bank. Bikes now account for 94% of all vehicles in Vietnam, the highest percentage in the region...
...stand here a few more minutes, they'll shoot at us," says Tibon, the 40-year-old commander of the Nahal Brigade. In those circumstances, most people would leave right away. But Tibon plans to stay. Israel's reoccupation of the West Bank has entered a new phase. The big battles of the spring are over, and Israel's soldiers are now in or around every major Palestinian town. Tibon's Nahal Brigade has the toughest assignment in the West Bank, guarding this city where 80% of the intifadeh's suicide bombings have been planned. Fighting is more intense right...
...phase her,” said longtime friend and collaborator Josephine Wright, a former Harvard Faculty member who is now a professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio. “She was a scholar and she knew what she was doing...