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...workers in new factories like Venus Jewel are adult, and the work environment is comfortable and well lit, albeit pervaded by paranoia. Closed-circuit cameras monitor many parts of the factory, and S.P. Shah, whose family owns Venus Jewel, sits in front of four screens and watches obsessively. Although the industry is rife with rumors that workers are locked in factories if diamonds go astray, Shah denies that his own employees are ill treated. "If a stone goes missing," he says, "we try and persuade the workers to give it back, and this usually works...
Tensions have been palpable on Capitol Hill since Bush’s two recent recess appointments of circuit-court judges. Democrats were further outraged when the president refused to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions, inspiring Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to threaten the administration with an unequivocal stall of all judicial nominations. “There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a March statement. “It will be very, very difficult for us to move forward on nominations...
...theme parks, in the placid Orange County community of Lake Forest, 65 miles south of Los Angeles. On weekends the 15,000 members and about 5,000 visitors choose from services at six different times and 10 different venues around the campus--some with live preachers, some on closed-circuit TV--offering a variety of worship and music styles ranging from quiet hymns in an intimate setting to a tent gathering with roof-raising gospel singing. The hub is the cavernous worship center. Take away the 3,200 seats, the six-piece band, the suspended wooden cross and the giant...
Another blocking group participated in a similar circuit of toasts, but only stopped at the River Houses...
...transportation-security officials in Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia, there will be many sleepless nights ahead. In New York City, with more than 4 million rail and subway commuters daily, security has become an obsession. Although city officials have stepped up police patrols and introduced closed-circuit cameras in stations, they believe they cannot frisk rail commuters in the way that federal authorities screen air travelers...