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...being used as human shields, there is little doubt they are in danger. "I don't think anyone took the measure of Milosevic's capacity for brutality," says J. Brian Atwood, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, who is coordinating the U.S. refugee response. Now "the problem we fear is the humanitarian crisis that isn't being managed inside Kosovo." And as fighting between the K.L.A. and Serbian forces begins to pick up, that problem will only grow worse...
Solve this problem: The staff and students of School District 11 in Colorado Springs, Colo., drank 30,000 cases of Coke beverages last year. District 11 has a 10-year, $8 million contract with the soft-drink company that calls for the yearly consumption of 1.68 million bottles of Coke products. If a case contains 24 bottles, which answer is correct? A) District 11 met its goal, and its students will sing back-up to Aretha Franklin in a new ad campaign. B) District 11 is 960,000 bottles in the red. C) Students should drink lots more Coke...
...this really a problem? The Post says that it and other newspapers have spiked Hart's strongest Christian statements. They may have been a factor in one paper's dropping the strip entirely. Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. noted, "We don't promote individual religions anywhere in the paper." In a subsequent interview he says he has run much of Hart's religious material, excluding rare strips that could be taken for direct attacks on other faiths or were "very strongly proselytizing, as though it were advertising rather than a comic strip." Meanwhile, the current issue of Focus...
...think Wall Street hasn't struggled with the value problem. Four years after Netscape rang the bell for Net mania with an initial public offering at $28 a share that soared to $58 in a day, underwriters remain skeptical and resist pricing Internet IPOs anywhere near where the market does. Last week Rhythms Netconnections was listed at $21 and closed the day at $69. Two weeks ago, Priceline.com started at $16 and shot to $69. If anything, the pricing of Net stocks is growing more off kilter. The average first-day gain for an Internet IPO has swelled from...
...last October, Brian Hanson knew he had to hurry up and expand the operations of the Portland, Maine, seafood store that had been in his family for three generations. Space wasn't exactly the problem; he and one of his partners, Walter Compare Jr., had just moved Hanson Bros. Fresh Seafood to larger quarters in the newly built Portland Public Market. But there were rumors floating around town of a new digital form of competition. "One guy sold $1 million worth of live Maine lobsters online around Christmas," says Hanson. "That's when we do most of our business...