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...shirt? Do you?" If you don't know, here's the answer: Workers seeking to improve their lives in sub-Saharan African countries like Lesotho, Uganda and Tanzania with few other opportunities for sustainable employment. These workers, according to the students, are getting fair wages and working in clean facilities, and no children are exploited in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Made Your T-Shirt? | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...African women carrying buckets of unclean water on their heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...African women carrying buckets of unclean water on their heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...challenge is different when his party is in charge. The newly empowered Democratic committee chairs are aching to flex their muscles. Labor chairman Edward Kennedy wants to write a "clean" bill raising the minimum wage, but Reid doubts it could pass without including tax breaks for business that Republicans are demanding. Even Reid's freshmen are uppity. When he called Virginia's Senator Jim Webb to inform him of his committee assignments--the standard backwater spots that junior members are usually consigned to--Webb demanded "A" assignments on both Armed Services and Foreign Relations. Since Webb's surprise victory gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' Inside Man | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...companies that invested in PetroChina. But in this particular case, there is little ambiguity; investments in the Chinese firms comprised a sizable 12.6 percent of one of the Harvard-owned funds. This, in our view, does not represent a good faith attempt to keep Harvard’s hands clean in light of its commitment to ethical investing...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Drop The Stock | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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