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...kind of entrepreneurial to find out how to apply,” Brown writes. “It wasn’t easy as my parents were not very cool with the idea of me going abroad...
...seized on as a tool to nail al-Arian. The act, which Congress is working to extend another four years, allowed FBI investigators access to FBI intelligence, which had been off-limits for building criminal cases. The intel files include wiretaps and other surveillance of al-Arian carried out abroad by Israeli agents, who had also taken an interest in the professor and had shared their findings with the FBI's intelligence branch...
...Tour" by some U.S. diplomats. After months of relative silence from the Bush Administration on the topic of torture, Rice declared before taking off that the U.S. "does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances." In Europe she insisted there was no loophole for CIA officers operating abroad or for harsh treatment that didn't technically qualify as torture...
...accounts, in part, for why he has installed stringent fair-labor policies at Timberland's factories and those of its vendors in Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa. Timberland does not allow workers to put in more than 60 hours a week--a rule that has provoked much grumbling abroad, where laborers often want to work more. (Swartz says that the policy is nonnegotiable and that he is not yet satisfied with the results.) In China the company has started funding skills training for women at its suppliers' plants. In Bangladesh it's working with CARE in Chittagong to provide...
...state better known for its lobster rolls and rugged landscape, James Wilfong has a radical new vision for Maine's future. On his trips abroad as a Small Business Administration official in the 1990s, Wilfong came to realize that in many places water was worth fighting for. "The light went off in my head," he says. "Water is Maine's oil in this century...