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HUCTW, Harvard's largest union, protested proposed cuts in part-time health-care benefits scheduled to take effect in January. Members said they would continue to walk the picket line until the issue was resolved...
...picket line began at 8 a.m. yesterday morning and continued until 6 p.m., with the number of protesters swelling around 5:15 p.m. when many members of HUCTW got off work...
...showed that they could build a real-life town. Set on 1,900 acres south of Orlando, Celebration is the name of a large-scale housing development which Disney built and will manage. The town was especially designed to facilitate community gatherings and neighborly interaction. Houses have front porches, picket fences and other amenities often overlooked in modern construction. Years before "family values" hit the limelight of the political scene, Disney had already begun planning this $2.5 billion project to bring the neighborhood of "Father Knows Best" and "Leave It to Beaver" to some 20,000 residents of the 1990s...
...antiabortion activists, however, it is a disaster. RU-486 can be given in a doctor's office rather than an abortion clinic, so protesters won't know where to set up their picket lines. The drug does have some serious drawbacks: it has to be taken within seven weeks of a woman's last menstrual period; it fails about 5% of the time; and it can have side effects, including cramping, nausea and severe bleeding. In Europe it is used for only about 20% of all abortions. But in the U.S., where women routinely run protest gauntlets at clinic doors...
WILLIAM JAMES HALL--Members of Carpenters Local 40 chose yesterday morning to picket outside William James Hall, criticizing what they termed "unfair labor practices" by the University in the white monolith's renovations...