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...also didn't see Christ among the Aborigine family that found him, the Bidyadanga people who chanted to keep him alive, the Filipina nurse who wept for him, his friend Danny who raced to save his life, the police and the medics who got to the scene, the medical personnel who decided to fly him to Royal Perth Hospital, the people who operated for 13 hours--or in the midst of relatives and friends who gave him the support and affection he talks about in his article. Hughes just might have missed Jesus in such a crowd. PEDRO COSTA Abrantes...
From Silicon Valley to Motown, from assembly line to PC workstation, corporate employers are taking charge of their workers' health as never before. Company doctors have splinted the broken bones of factory workers for generations, and personnel managers long ago began offering vaccinations. What's new is that employers in every industry are injecting themselves into issues that seem to have as much to do with lifestyle choices as with traditional medicine. In a U.S. Health and Human Services survey this year, 95% of U.S. companies with more than 50 employees said they had taken action to improve workers' health...
Although Panama has no standing army and its 12,000 domestic security personnel would be no match for any serious aggressor, the 1977 treaty also allows the U.S. to intervene militarily if the security of the Canal Zone is threatened. And since Beijing's ability to project military power even as far as Taiwan and the Spratly Islands is looking somewhat questionable, Central America is probably a little out of reach. "We wouldn't have adopted the treaty if it was going to hurt national security," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And besides, there's no strategic threat...
...Leadership is something A.J. really brought to the table last year but we've got strong leaders in our captains as well as some younger, very dominant players," Stone said. "The one area where we'll miss A.J. most is on special teams but we feel we have the personnel to fill those holes...
That damned factory in the Sudan keeps coming back to haunt the White House. The New York Times on Wednesday carried a detailed account of how the Clinton administration decided to bomb the Al Shifa chemical plant in 1998 despite warnings by senior intelligence and security personnel that there was insufficient evidence linking it to either Osama Bin Laden or the manufacture of chemical weapons. Under pressure from international protest and media inquiries, administration sources have backpedaled substantially on both claims since the August 1998 strike, which, together with a similar raid on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps, was launched...