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Mama San is right: there is no shortage of kids for sale. Across Asia, tens of thousands of children are peddled into slavery each year. Some toil with their families as bonded laborers on farms. Others are sold by their parents - or tricked by agents - into servitude as camel jockeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shame | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Many experts had predicted serious problems as banks struggled to provide adequate supplies of the new currency and Europeans strained to cope with the challenging exchange rates. Instead, the transition progressed remarkably smoothly with only a few minor teething pains. The Euro is at last strengthening against other international currencies...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: The Perils of the Euro | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the prospects for both the Euro and the residents of “Euroland” are rather less rosy than political leaders would have us believe. The struggle to set appropriate interest rates across an entire continent with extraordinarily divergent economic conditions may well prove to be an...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: The Perils of the Euro | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

The Euro, as few leaders now deny, was a political and not an economic creation. A Federal Europe may still be a long way off but there now exists on the continent a strong belief that it is ultimately inevitable. The pitfalls inherent in a powerful European super-state, united...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: The Perils of the Euro | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

The word is enervating. Your body feels completely drained, every step is an effort and you have to will yourself on. In the second and third hours I felt strong and sang to myself and dreamed of attempting other continent's highest mountains. By the fourth hour I was cursing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Kilimanjaro | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

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