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Southwest's San Antonio mold problem dates back to the 1980s, but the first clean-up attempt wasn't made until 1994. By that time, workers say, fungi were literally dropping out of the ceiling vents into their coffee. When the fabric used as a wall covering was removed, the wallboards underneath were coated with black mold. All the renovations, including removal and replacement of mold-infested carpeting, ceiling tiles and wallboards, and chemical scouring of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, were done while employees were working...
...water-cooler bottle. "It makes me really angry that these people could be traded just like pets," said Doni Taipalus, 9, who chipped in $6 he earned from household chores. Each time the children raised enough to free one person, a brown-paper cutout was pasted on the classroom wall...
Donations and pledges now approach $50,000, and Vogel's wall has long since run out of space for the cutouts. She also has a new class--fourth-graders--to help carry out the campaign. By Christmas, she and her new charges hope to send enough money to Christian Solidarity to have freed 1,000 Sudanese. While that is but a small number of those believed held in bondage (and the spotlight may raise the price of freedom), it doesn't diminish the spirit of the kids. Says Joshua Hook, 10: "This is a big wrong, and we're helping...
Busy, literate people have long employed audio books to get the most out of their drive time. In January they can go digital, searching an online archive (at audible.com of more than 16,000 hours of audio books, radio broadcasts, lectures and daily summaries of the Wall Street Journal, then downloading selections to the MobilePlayer-PLUS from Audible in Wayne, N.J. The $300 pocket-size device comes with headphones and holds eight hours of content...
...Wall Street greeted the air strikes right after the close of trading Wednesday with all the excitement of a mid-season basketball game, and Thursday is about the same. "There was absolutely no sense of real worry or panic when word started circulating in the markets yesterday," said one floor trader. "People on the trading floor were taking bets on what time the first air strike would occur." In fact, the markets were almost relieved by the bombing of Iraq, since it delayed an impeachment vote and has cast President Clinton in a strong leadership stance. Oil stocks that spiked...