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...connections to other destinations. Yet it may soon become the human race's most exclusive - and expensive - vacation spot. Where in the world is this? Try out of this world: This weekend, at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the privately held International Space Station, a consortium of international companies unveiled a proposal to add hotel suites to the orbiting facility...
...rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides on the space shuttle. Boeing, the primary developer of the International Space Station, is also leading the consortium to build the hotel, and would not rule out that it could be used to house vacationing civilians. It suddenly appears that the trillions the U.S. sank into its space program in the '80s may have been more than simply hubris, creating an infrastructure that will allow it to corner...
...most authoritative predictions about future warming come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a worldwide consortium of more than 2,000 climate scientists. The current forecast is that by 2100 the earth's temperature will go up 1[degree] to 3.5[degrees]C (2[degrees] to 7[degrees]F), with the best guess being an increase of 2[degrees]C (4[degrees...
Some employers have tried shifting the responsibility for preventive medicine to their health plans. The Pacific Business Group on Health, an employers' consortium, has offered to pay higher premiums if its plans administer more mammograms. But most companies are recognizing that they can do more by approaching their employees directly, says Stephanie Pronk, a health-promotion expert for William M. Mercer consulting company. "If I see my doctor for five or 10 minutes a couple of times a year, there's not a lot of opportunity to work with me. The worksite has the person captive eight to 10 hours...
Last week, two roads diverged for universities interested in ending sweatshops. The national student umbrella group, United Students Against Sweatshops, released the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an outline of principles for university monitoring of overseas garment factories. The WRC calls for full public disclosure of locations and wage information of all factories producing college clothing. It also mandates the establishment of a small non-profit monitoring body responsible for responding to worker complaints. These principles represent a clear break from those currently held by the government and industry-sponsored Fair Labor Association (FLA), which would rely on classified, corporate audits...