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...through the nation's banking sector and the entire economy. Some 70% of Bangladeshi garment workers are women; many come from backward rural areas. If they lose their jobs and are forced to return home, "many will have no option but to join the underground sex trade," says Nazma Akhter, president of the Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers' Union Federation...
...Band Taimore, 80 kilometers west of Kandahar. On the night of May 24, helicopters raining machine-gun fire descended onto the village wheat fields. The mission was a success. U.S. forces killed Haji Bajet, 70, a supporter of Taliban leader Mullah Omar since 1994, who also had links with Akhter Mohammed Usmani, the probable heir to the still-fugitive Omar...
Other new members are Reza Akhter '95, JoshuaA. Feltman '95, David A. Miller '95, ChristopherRickerd '95, Sanford Weisburst '95, Mu Zhu '95,Ruvin Y. Breydo '95, Benjamin F. Denckla '95,Dominic M. Dousa '95, Marcel F. Gemperli '95, MinhL. Nguyen '95 and Jeffrey...
...awakening of self-reliance in the urban poor is a global phenomenon. In Karachi, architect Akhter Hameed Khan rallied the people of the Orangi district around a self-help initiative to upgrade their sanitation. With 800,000 residents from five of Pakistan's major ethnic groups, the neighborhood is periodically racked by violence. Still, working lane by lane, beginning in 1980, Hameed Khan and his co-workers in the Orangi Pilot Project proved to the district that with a tiny investment ($40 a house), it could install its own sewerage system. Since then, roughly 70% of the 6,347 lanes...
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