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...students entered the annual TIME Education Program (TEP) contests, and the 12 winners received a total of $31,500 in scholarships. In the high school essay contest, co- sponsored by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the grand prize went to Michele Host of Badger Union High, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She wrote a moving tribute to her mother, who taught her that "learning begins in the home, and with the family." Other star writers: Robert Farrell of Klein Forest High, Houston; Jackie Casper of Sheboygan County (Wisconsin) Christian High; and Sanam Lari of Tamalpais High, Mill Valley, California...
...Like anything which you love to do, it's a little sad to leave it," he said. But he will continue his experimentation at the high energy particle collider in Geneva, Switzerland. "One misses the teaching, but as you get older, you can't do everything anymore," he said...
...PROSPECT OF DEATH FROM OVERWORK IS COMMON enough in Japan that they have a word for it -- karoshi. When the term was recently given official international recognition, however, some image-sensitive Japanese officials were upset. The World Labor Report, published by the Geneva-based International Labor Office, cites karoshi as one of the consequences of stress at work. The report also contains a survey that says more than 40% of Japanese fear they may work themselves into an early grave. The Japanese Ministry of Labor questions the report's data and is filing a formal protest with the International Labor...
...south after the war. Internal security is entrusted to two half- brothers, and Saddam's younger son, Qusai, 26, was recently put in charge of the 10,000-man presidential guard. Another half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, has just returned from a 10-year stint as U.N. ambassador in Geneva to serve as presidential adviser. He is also the overseer of Saddam's personal financial empire, allegedly a $30 billion fortune amassed by skimming 5% off Iraq's oil revenues since Saddam became President in 1979. Because $5.5 billion in official Iraqi accounts has been frozen abroad, Saddam is suspected...
ALMOST 128 YEARS AFTER ABOLITION, Americans are still struggling with the costly political and social legacy of slavery. In huge swaths of Africa, Asia and Latin America, however, governments haven't even got that far. In a shocking study to be released March 23, the Geneva-based International Labor Organization reports that tens of millions of people around the globe, including children as young as six, are working in bondage -- in dangerous and degrading conditions that often involve 18-hour workdays, beatings and sexual abuse. Many are the victims of opportunistic slave raiders, sometimes called "child catchers" and "cats...