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Dressed in a black button down and khakis, Kubik, who speaks without a trace of a Polish accent—though with a hint of Addison, Illinois, the suburb of Chicago where he now lives—addressed the audience in English and Walesa in Polish, asking him about coal mines in the country. The mines’ workers, finding themselves out of work and now faced with a supply-and-demand economy and not all that much demand, have attacked the economic policies of the current government...

Author: By A.n. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On The Polish Question | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...Many Internet companies have decided that a reasonably effective method of weeding out sexual predators is to require chat room habitués to register - and pay. Users must cough up a subscription fee, along with a credit-card number and personal information that can then be used to trace the perpetrator of any future abuse. Indeed, Microsoft itself will in some nations - including the U.S., Japan and Canada - require such subscriptions of between $2 and $10 per month to gain access to MSN chat rooms. So why not extend the same secure service elsewhere? "There is a fundamental difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to All Chat | 9/28/2003 | See Source »

...destroy it, despite carpet bombing and the use of Agent Orange. Since the war ended, however, the trail has been largely reclaimed by jungle and myth; only a few, isolated fragments are accessible. Christopher Hunt's 1996 book Sparring with Charlie documented his trying, and mostly failing, to trace it. Indeed, we are among the first foreigners to travel any significant length of the trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Redemption | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...important next step would be to make the detection technologies faster and smaller. At Livermore, scientists developed and recently licensed a device called RadScout. Designed to detect trace amounts of radiation, it's a battery-powered, lunch-box-size handheld detector that customs officers could use to inspect suspicious containers at close range. Bruce Goodwin, head of the lab's nuclear-weapons program, says he hopes to see future versions of the device no bigger than a pen and "cheap enough so that every cop can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Be Safer? | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

Like snowboarders or surfers, says Else, climbers see themselves as part of a counter-culture and dislike being dictated to. To spread his message of "leave no trace," he mingles with the climbers as much as possible and plays host to a coffee each Sunday morning at Camp 4. Hardest to educate are the growing legions of boulderers, many of whom started climbing in gyms and regard the sport as a social activity, not a wilderness experience. Bouldering is cheap, requiring no ropes or expensive equipment, and it attracts younger climbers, who hang out in groups watching each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Wearing Down the Mountains | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

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