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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If you want to label me," says Lincoln, "anarchist is as close as you're going to come." Lincoln is a lanky 19-year-old Texan who came to Seattle to protest "one-world government" and will leave sporting a nom de guerre, a nasty forehead gash courtesy of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Organized Anarchists Led Seattle into Chaos | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Meaning what? The anarchist movement today is a sprawling welter of thousands of mostly young activists populating hundreds of mostly tiny splinter groups espousing dozens of mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Organized Anarchists Led Seattle into Chaos | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Why do hospitals overwork their interns? Because they can. Why don't interns do something about it? Because for 23 years they were forbidden to organize. The NLRB ruled in 1976 that interns were not employees but students and had no right to bargain collectively. Last week's decision reverses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Accident Waiting to Happen? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

She had this smirk, this "I know something you don't" smile, pure catnip for journalists. And so there was always a gaggle of us around MARTA DORION, waiting for some tidbit to waft through her smoke-filled office, a last refuge for cigarette lovers here at TIME. Many who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: Marta Dorion | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Carbon dioxide and other gases from the burning of fossil fuels collect in the atmosphere and act like the glass walls of a greenhouse, trapping heat on the earth's surface. Scientists predict that the planet's average temperature could rise as much as 6.3[degrees]F (3.5[degrees]C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenhouse Effects | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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