Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...nice, low-key day out." A grin. The streets are lined with men and women who become ecstatic as the cars breeze by. Their heads flop back, their eyes sparkle and their arms shoot up into the air. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is also in town this weekend. Local gossips say he has driven across the desert in a motorcade of 420 cars--a romantic, incredible tale in this poor country. Perhaps, Annan wonders, the crowds think this motorcade is Gaddafi's? "Father," they shout as the cars pass. "Father!" They recognize Annan. A nice...
When Shaka shot himself, Franklin had been stunned. "I didn't think black people killed themselves. I thought it was a white man's disease." Shaka had been a football star at the local high school. But sidelined with an injury, he began to worry about his mother Cherilyn, who was divorced from Les and would die of cancer in 1991. On Oct. 19, 1990, Shaka picked up his father's pistol and killed himself in a bedroom of the Franklins' dream house...
...Ford and Firestone attribute incidents in the Middle East and Latin America largely to local driving conditions such as bad roads, hot climates and under- or overinflated tires. Critics see these arguments as disingenuous, if not offensive. According to an internal Ford memo dated Oct. 1, 1999, reviewed by TIME, at least part of the reason some of the Wilderness tires were failing in the Gulf region was that the company had decided to use the North American?made tires even though Firestone had warned that they were "not meant" for the rugged terrain. Ford says it knows...
COLLEGE FRESHMEN DIRTY THEIR HANDS Some colleges this fall are welcoming freshmen by putting them to work outdoors on community-service projects. At Wabash College in Indiana, new students head off campus to work at such projects as painting local buildings. Newcomers to Colorado College clean up public parks and animals' habitats. Freshmen, pictured at right, at Amherst College in Massachusetts hoe fields for a farm run by a local food bank. Students find the work a valuable way to bond with one another and their new community...
...COMMUNITY COLLEGE THE PLACE TO TRAIN FOR DOT-COM JOBS Community colleges are getting a breath of new life from the booming information economy. Enrollment in associate-degree programs has been flat for years, but postgraduates are flocking to the local colleges for technology training, which currently rivals health care-industry courses as the most popular...