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...ignored the rampant corruption and nepotism in Uganda. Something is wrong there. With per-capita income at $240, how can Museveni afford to fight other people's wars? HENRY ISIKO Lake Providence...
...that actually gave a place character. In towns where there are no community groups to protect the nature of place, developers have gone wild building long, developed strips of fast food chains and car dealerships. Real estate values can show that people are not attracted by this kind of rampant commercialization...
...SENATOR JON KYL, who pushed for the formation of the commission, which will deliver a secret report to the President in October. The panel's chairman, Robert Marsh, says radical groups like the Irish Republican Army are looking at ways to wage "economic terrorism," and computer assaults are already rampant. A hacker shut down computers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia last winter by sending in 30,000 E-mail messages. The Langley machines were paralyzed for six hours...
...more cosmic question loomed as the two sides broke off talks last weekend. Did the Teamster strike presage a new militancy by unions or would it prove to be just one more indication of how limited their clout is? With fears of downsizing and layoffs still rampant, unions staged only 37 walkouts involving 1,000 or more workers last year, in contrast to 231 major strikes in 1976. "If the Teamsters can't deliver [a winning settlement] on this one," says Charles Craver, a labor expert at the George Washington University law school, "organized labor is in big trouble...
Overpopulation, overdevelopment, herbicides, pesticides, deforestation, poaching, rampant pollution--and let's not forget we on Earth haven't the foggiest idea how to dispose of spent nuclear fuel safely. Just think, in 20 years or less, we'll have our very own Mars! CHERYL Y. ESBENSHADE Lancaster...