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...Nike, workers are paid as little as 16 cents an hour, the protesters said in signs they held as they stood outside the athletic store's doors...
Student protesters delivered frosted cookies and cards to Mass. Hall, to Holyoke Center and to Loeb House--where the Harvard Corporation meets--to protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by companies like Nike to monitors working conditions in foreign apparel factories...
...humming with electronic innovation, the new takes its baby steps in the boot prints of the old. Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
...traditional target for crowds protesting everything from the bombing of Serbia or the entry of U.S. corporations into India's catering market to globalization in general. U.S. embassies may be impregnable, but the wide windows of McDonald's and KFC are a tempting forest of windmills for Nike-clad Quixotes everywhere in the world who want to tilt at symbols of American influence...
About 30 students protested Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by companies like Nike and L.L. Bean to monitor working conditions in foreign apparel factories...