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Third World child labor is perhaps one of the most strongly condemned and despised labor practices in the Western mass consciousness today. The typical, and virtually universal, Western response to issues relating to child labor is advocating a blanket ban on such practices. Unfortunately, such a reaction, while completely understandable and certainly well intentioned, often overlooks the complexity of the underlying issues which govern labor market conditions in poorer countries. In fact, these bans are counterproductive to the extent that they may harm the very segments of society which they aim to protect: The trouble with a blanket...
...imposing a blanket ban on child labor, we're effectively giving up any leverage that we might have to influence these kids in positive ways. If children are working anyway, it is preferable that they be hired by companies answerable to people in the West instead of the myriad domestic slave factories that currently thrive. With multinational companies, some method of responsibility could be worked out by which working conditions for children could be strictly monitored, their wages raised, and, most important of all, arrangements made for providing them with some form of education...
...make a blanket statement like 'no ethnic organizations in the fair' makes no sense, and I think there is enough evidence to claim discrimination," she wrote in an e-mail message to the Undergraduate Council...
Several years later, when the three labs, the University of Arizona among them, produced their wet-blanket dates for the Turin shroud, a possibility flashed through Garza-Valdes' mind. What if the shroud too had a "bioplastic" varnish--and the labs had been fooled into decreeing an object younger than it actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch...
...comfortably lying on a blanket in the grass surrounded by his roommates, appears to be lazily enjoying his Discman and the weather. However, his innocence is feigned--he is up to nefarious activities...