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...compromise: Brazil originally wanted it set for 2010.) The latest efforts by the NAFTA forces involved suggestions to push forward the 2005 deadline for the FTAA's launching to 2003. The Brazilians have cold-shouldered the idea. Foreign Minister Lafer says a two-year speed-up would swamp domestic industries with a flood of low-priced goods before his country is ready. "We're joining the FTAA only if it's convenient for us," Lafer told TIME last week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down...
Forty Harvard students cleared 20 cubic yards of trash from the Alewife Reservation-100 acres of swamp, forest and fields housing hundreds of species of animals. They exhumed tires and shopping carts, a 300-pound safe, a steel gallon drum and even a kitchen sink...
...first appears to be. Flannigan takes the word "professional" to another level entirely, transforming halfway through the movie from one unconvincing role to another. First, she is caring, wide-eyed, in awe of Cross, then suddenly she is cruel and contemptuous in a plot twist worthy of the trashy swamp thriller Wild Things. But that's divulging too much already...
...administration and legislators on both sides of the aisle have pledged their support for a serious U.S. commitment to fight AIDS in Africa. In order for them to succeed in boosting U.S. involvement, however, their voices must be amplified by the voice of the public. We must swamp Washington in letters, phone calls, news pieces and other indications that America cares about AIDS in Africa. Simultaneously, pressure must be brought to bear on drug companies to lower the price of AIDS drugs to developing countries to the cost of production. Students must answer the calls of a global conscience...
...social devolution. It's an action-packed tale but light in every other way, although its tone can be very, very heavy. Abortion figures in, and much is made of changing mores in the era just preceding Roe v. Wade, but the quest for relevance founders in a swamp of hyperspecific, unnecessary stage directions and commercial-fiction panting about uncertain futures and what have you. So wait for the movie (the rights have already been bought). Then...