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...another Delhi neighborhood, Sami Alam, 8, tells of escaping earlier in the week from a sweatshop where he'd worked as a cook for nine months. His parents had sent him to Delhi from his native Bihar, in exchange for cash. "I didn't know how to cook, so the owner would beat me," he says, showing scars on his frail arms...
...tellers and dancers for the Ottoman court, and later for Turks from all walks of life - a tradition captured on-screen in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Their fortunes took a downturn in the 1990s, when their "entertainment houses" - private homes in which gypsy families would cook, strum and dance for wealthy Istanbulites - were shut down on allegations of gambling and prostitution...
...Pain in Africa The million or so people living in Kibera, the Kenyan slum, are what the WFP calls "the new face of hunger." They are victims of soaring prices, not just of food but also of more costly staples such as fuel, charcoal, cooking oil and kerosene. Residents can almost feel themselves becoming poorer by the day. The sensation is particularly cruel because Kibera's stores have adequate supplies, but the tomatoes lie rotting on the shelves alongside untouched bags of rice and cereal: they are now too expensive for locals to buy and cook. "We are not eating...
...first set of residents, all men, did their own cleaning and maintenance but hired Radcliffe women to cook dinner for $10 a night. In the fall of 1966, James G. Maslach ’69 instituted the practice that Co-opers would prepare their own dinners in order to save money, a custom that lives on today. The Co-op began housing women by the early...
After a pair of punts, Harvard struck on three consecutive drives with a 33-yard pass from Pizzotti to Luft, a one-yard plunge by sophomore Cheng Ho, and a 15-yard screen pass to sophomore Mike Cook after a failed fake punt by the Bulldogs. Only a fourth-down stop of a Pizzotti sneak at the goal line on the final play of the first half left Yale with anything to play for at halftime, trailing...