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October 1998 News and Events

1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldChina to Improve Human Rights (Oct. 5): Signs major international agreement that includes ban on arbitrary arrest and torture, and protects freedom of thought,…

Women's Rights are Human Rights

by Hillary Rodham Clinton Remarks for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Mrs. Mongella, distinguished delegates and guests: I would like to thank the Secretary…

Our Top 5 Stories for the Week of October 25, 2021

It’s been a busy week, from a Facebook rebranding to a coup in Sudan. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top five stories of the week. Covid Updates for…

Top 25 Fantasy & Sci-Fi Movie Quotes

Top of Page Words, in the not-so-humble opinion of a great wizard, are our most inexhaustible source of magic. And fantasy and science fiction movies provide us with some of the most magical and…

turnpike

(Encyclopedia) turnpike, road paid for partly or wholly by fees collected from travelers at tollgates. It derives its name from the hinged bar that prevented passage through such a gate until the…

Year in Review, 2000: The Year in Music

by Kevin O'Hare QUICK POLL What was your favorite album of 2000? U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Radiohead, Kid A Eminem,…

Youth Employment Trends

Source: U.S. Department of Labor. Report on the Youth Labor Force, November 2000. Based on Current Population Survey data. Web: stats.bls.gov/opub/rylf/rylfhome.htm . How Many…

commerce, in economics

(Encyclopedia) commerce, traffic in goods, usually thought of as trade between states or nations. Engaged in by all peoples from the earliest times, it has been carried on in some areas and by some…