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...developing nations in the info age, it's a question of priorities: Do you want a working toilet or do you want the World Wide Web? Many seem to be choosing the Web. Access to adequate sanitation facilities in Latin America and Asia is falling while Web use is growing geometrically, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. In China, 4 million people are expected to be online by the year 2000, though not even half of them have a toilet. Africans get the worst deal--few toilets and even fewer...
Personal security is a factor in this new, wide-open world. A growing number of companies are taking extra steps to ensure their employees' safety as they log those mega-miles. Don Hubbard, national director of security for Coopers & Lybrand, saw the need to bolster the company's international travel-security policy after an executive was trapped in a Mexico City restaurant by three gunmen, robbed and released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with...
...Committee members have often been on the committee for several years, so they have wide range of experience and expertise in their field," she said...
Somehow we drift into a captivating if zany discourse on the obscure matter of New York State electoral politics. It's a subject he's particularly interested in, for some reason, and I'm more than happy to share what little information I've gleaned about the key state-wide races. After I give him my "New Yorker" perspective on the power struggle between Gov. George Pataki and Lieutenant Gov. Betsy McCaughey Ross, he notes with satisfaction that my summary gels with the impression he got from reading about the controversy in The New York Times...
Struck, who will live in Dunster House next year, is better informed, thanks to the House-wide sale e-mail...