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...sale are indigenous art and craft and the handiwork of local women. A handful of people have gathered around a young woman displaying a laundry gizmo. Slim, tanned and cheerful, Sheree O'Brien, 34, is spruiking The Amazing Handiwash, a plastic agitator that cleans dirty clothes in a bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean Living | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...just a drop in the bucket," says John Keeley, director of communications for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors immigration controls. Keeley says that even with the new practices, the current enforcement is so small and selective that it amounts to a lottery for those employers who get caught. "The ones who do get selected, they're the ultimate losers because the overwhelming number of American businesses that have been doing this for many years get a free pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Tactics of Immigration Enforcement | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...Wiandt, a co-author of the first book about ETFs and publisher of website IndexUniverse.com says, "On its face, the daily volume of gold ETFs represents a drop in the bucket for the world market. But markets are reactionary to news, and there's no question that when the first gold ETF [GLD] came out, the market moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Investing: Market Movers | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...first be fully determined, for by the time the ambulance arrives, the victim has disappeared. In any case, the family is less concerned with his possible demise than it is with the question of whether their father has been cheating on their mother. Off into the night they bucket, seeking truth, but in the end finding some sort of compassion for all concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schickel on Movies: An Israeli-Palestinian farce. Really | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

...California. The report also sets aside family funds for faculty and students engaged in research-related travel and increases scholarships and spots at Harvard-affiliated daycare centers.But professors say that such measures are still largely symbolic.“You know this is kind of a drop in the bucket,” says Mansbridge of the childcare initiative. “You could spend a lot of money trying to compensate parents for the time and money they spend raising children, so as to begin to level the playing field between them and the childless. This isn?...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diversity Office Takes First Steps | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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