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...rambling two-story house hidden by mango and chicle trees on the industrious island of Trinidad lives an unlikely watchdog against corporate greed. Ved Seereeram, a financial consultant and former banker, has been working for years to expose what he describes as a prestigious U.S. lender aggressively marketing financial instruments to governments that didn't really understand them. Tens of millions of dollars in excessive fees and interest, he says, have been diverted from poor Caribbean countries into the coffers of Citibank, now a unit of Citigroup. Until recently, no one really listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predators in Paradise? | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based nonpartisan watchdog group, said that evidence points to Harvard as the likely buyer...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, Eugenia B. Schraa, and Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: While You Were Gone | 9/13/2002 | See Source »

...their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

DRUGS, BUGS AND BEYOND Even their supporters agree that "nonlethal weapons" is a dangerous misnomer and that any of these devices has the potential to injure and kill. What is more, some of them may not even be legal. Over the past three months, a chemical-weapons watchdog organization called the Sunshine Project has obtained evidence that the U.S. is considering some projects that appear to take us beyond the bounds of good sense: bioengineered bacteria designed to eat asphalt, fuel and body armor, or faster-acting, weaponized forms of antidepressants, opiates and so-called "club drugs" that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...DRUGS, BUGS AND BEYOND Even their supporters agree that "nonlethal weapons" is a dangerous misnomer and that any of these devices has the potential to injure and kill. What is more, some of them may not even be legal. Over the past three months, a chemical-weapons watchdog organization called the Sunshine Project has obtained evidence that the U.S. is considering some projects that appear to take us beyond the bounds of good sense: bioengineered bacteria designed to eat asphalt, fuel and body armor, or faster-acting, weaponized forms of antidepressants, opiates and so-called "club drugs" that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Rubber Bullet | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

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