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Monitor articles for April 06, 2000

  • Japan asks if it works too hard
  • Words of Note
  • Helping small-town kids kick boredom (and drugs)
  • Microsoft economics 101
  • Violence escalates in Zimbabwe
  • In a land called Nunavut, it's 'Toonik Tyme'
  • Balancing a job, a family, and Saddam Hussein
  • Internet transforms culture of spying
  • Time for all good people to come to the aid of their country?
  • Madame Chiang Kai-shek
  • Shaping a genetic revolution
  • Prayer and the news
  • News In Brief
  • Climbing the family tree through a thicket of slavery
  • For US, Elian's father can't come soon enough
  • A dark light in the coal mine of history
  • News In Brief
  • The wild market: not for timid
  • New recognition of Vodou's role in Haitian culture
  • A round table of wit, wisdom, and strife
  • Time to bring the CIA to heel
  • EnGENEering the future
  • News In Brief
  • The two-step begins
  • Rudy and Hillary show may have a surprise guest
  • A Millennium Agenda
  • A dance to the music of life
  • Reputation
  • Panel calls for tightening biocrop oversight
  • The search for extraterrestrial intelligence turns 40
  • Filling Holes in the Web
  • Today's Story Line
  • Speak up, dear. Your computer is listening
  • News In Brief
  • How the Victorians said it with flowers
  • News In Brief
  • Raising the roof on an Arctic high-rise
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