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...boat for a day's journey downriver to Sampit. Now her baby?it is a girl but as yet has no name, a domestic pleasure she can't yet contemplate?has a fever. Ma'rus doesn't have the strength to fight for a place on the government trucks bringing refugees to boats leaving for Java. This Tuesday morning, after five days in Sampit, she didn't even try, ignoring the shouts and sounds of blows as men fought to get away. It's just as well she didn't: she may not have survived the short truck ride. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Darkest Season | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Marcos and the other 23 Zapatista leaders, their ski masks firmly in place, rode a flatbed truck onto the jammed, sun-baked plaza, then trooped onto a stage whose backdrop was the massive National Palace, which fills an entire city block. Standing on pedestals that flank its main entrance, young Zapatista sympathizers waved red flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrilla Fiesta Shows Mexico's Changes | 3/11/2001 | See Source »

...HUPD units responded to a report of the attempted theft of a delivery truck at the Harvard Business School...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Even so, the typical i-mode subscriber racks up about $80 a month in charges. Take Koji Hakuta, 28, a truck driver. In his pre-i-mode days, he would deliver a load of pipes from Tokyo to Nagoya and then return empty. But a year ago, his boss launched a site for i-mode that brokers deals between drivers and cargo companies. One night, Hakuta logged on and found a client needing pipes trucked the other way, back to Tokyo. That load earned Hakuta an extra $230. "It's changed the way I work," Hakuta says. The only problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet A La I-Mode | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...when the answer to stopping this disease rests in the Africans' own hands?" an Arizona reader asked. "Is there a kit for castration? I'd gladly take out a loan to finance one," fumed one of our readers in Illinois, who was outraged by a comment from a Botswana truck driver who said he used prostitutes because "I'm human. I'm a man. I have to have sex." Following up on this red flag of sexual irresponsibility, a California reader concluded, "Look at the pictures, read the words, and then try to convince yourself that promiscuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 2001 | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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