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...story is not an unusual one in West Africa. The U.N. Children's Fund estimates that some 200,000 children a year are trafficked in West and Central Africa. Girls are affected worst; most end up as domestic workers or prostitutes. Boys are forced to work on coffee or cocoa plantations or as fishermen. The problem hit the news over the past fortnight when a Nigerian-registered boat that Benin authorities and UNICEF said was carrying as many as 200 slave children was turned away from Gabon and Cameroon. When it arrived back in Benin a few days later, only...
...sexual obsession that shake the album. Though not included on the original release, its lyrics easily rank among the Moonlight’s most caustic: “And if I see you snooping ’round my farm / I’ll give you a mug of cocoa, then I’ll break your arm / And if I tortured you upon a rack / You wouldn’t say half what you say behind my back / I’m an alien, baby / I’m an outsider, yeah...
...administrative assistant for the local sheriff, and her husband William, an engineer at Kenworth, would stand to save about $800 from Bush's tax cut. "I trust Bush when he says it's meant for working families," says Jo Ann. The couple has put off a trip to Cocoa Beach, Fla.--their first vacation without the kids--because of economic worries. If the tax cut comes through, Jo Ann says, "we might be able to take that trip"--as long as William keeps his job. Two weeks ago, Kenworth announced 135 more layoffs...
With his ear at the phone, North says, he later went on to bake jelly and cocoa rolls...
...goal of the Democratic Convention was to prove that Al Gore has the experience to be President. Not executive experience, but the really important stuff--body surfing and mountain climbing, making igloos and cocoa and a dinosaur diorama with the kids, shooting pool and watching Star Trek with Tommy Lee Jones, chasing through the woods with coon dogs in the middle of the night, wrapping a turkey in aluminum foil and roasting it in the fireplace. At this convention, Gore's image was the thing being cooked inside the shiny wrapper. And the message? As his old friend Bob Delabar...