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...which are young women--work in sweatshops. They are paid pennies per hour. They travel for hours to get to the factory. They work from 6:45 a.m. until at least 8 p.m. They work six days a week, 60 hours a week. They are allowed one bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying the word "union." They live in shacks...
...Safra, who as owner of the Republic National Bank of New York had made some high-powered enemies, had reportedly grown neurotic in recent months, convinced that he was in constant danger, and wouldn't emerge from a bathroom - despite entreaties from rescue workers - as the apartment became engulfed in flames. But will the public accept a tidy conclusion to this veritable Greek tragedy? Theories have already emerged on the Internet painting Maher as a Lee Harvey Oswald-like Russian mole. Another, probably closer to the truth, has Maher trying to ingratiate himself with the sickly billionaire, thus finding...
...when Apple sent me the device, my head was filled with ideas for crazy AirPort experiments. I would download recipes in the kitchen. I would do Christmas shopping from the bathroom. And because the range of this thing is supposed to be more than 150 ft., I would Web-surf wire free while sipping a beer in the Irish pub across the street from my apartment...
...international finance. Edmond Safra, owner of the Republic National Bank of New York and one of the world's richest men, was murdered Friday in Monte Carlo after two knife-wielding hooded men broke into his penthouse apartment and set a fire after the banker locked himself in a bathroom. Safra and a nanny died in the fire, while his bodyguard was badly injured. The killers have not been apprehended...
...Starbucks was in the bathroom at a branch of the coffee chain and somehow managed to become stuck, if you get my meaning, in between the toilet and seat. (I'm somewhat embarrassed even to be recounting or summarizing this story.) As a result of the incident which led to his injury, he has filed suit against Starbucks. Some accounts say he and his wife may now be unable to have children. He reportedly wants $1 million for himself--and another $500,000 for her. (Why does she get only half what he gets? Go figure...