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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those companies that know how, accommodating employees with a recognized mental disability is often easy and cheap. Phil Kosak, owner and president of Carolina Fine Snacks in Greensboro, N.C., spends nothing to ease the adjustment for the three of his nine employees who suffer from various mental illnesses or learning disabilities. Kosak had noticed, for example, that one of his employees on a production line would panic if he was not reminded each morning of everything he was supposed to get done that day. So the boss posted a bulletin board with the daily production tasks and goals. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Able To Work | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...even get into a discussion about the legitimate uses of various commands, including "finger." It is sufficient to say that once HASCS begins haphazardly removing commands from the system, users, generally the more advanced ones, will suffer. More commands could be next. Where would it stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Plea for Privacy' Misguided | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard, January is high season for everyone's favorite pastime, bitching and moaning. In the dining halls, on the streets, and in our common rooms, whining, complaining and lamenting proceed at a full gallop. Not only do we suffer under the burden of exams and term papers, but these winter months seem prime time for the onset of existential malaise. One friend suggested to me that The Crimson run a headline announcing, "Hell Freezes Over," in the aftermath of last week's ice storm, which left dismal Cambridge ensconced in slippery crystal...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Our Misery Doesn't Even Compare | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

Then there's the popular series of novels by retired minister Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, a former sportswriter. Set in the immediate future, their four "Left Behind" novels chronicle life on the eve of the Second Coming. Genuine Christians disappear to heaven. Everyone else is abandoned to suffer a terrible earthquake, wars and the whims of the Antichrist, a.k.a. U.N. Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia of Romania. Collectively the books have sold more than 3 million copies. LaHaye also offers maximalist warnings about Y2K. It "very well could trigger a financial meltdown," he warned recently in an online- chat event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The World As We Know It? | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Your children might suffer from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What People Think | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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