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...like Job Corps, society saves about $2 from increased productivity and lower costs related to crime and welfare. Jessica Collins, 21, had been making $6.50 an hour at McDonald's when, she says, she started selling drugs to make more money. Then an addict tried to trade her his daughter for a bag of cocaine, and Collins was shocked into going straight. She enrolled in a yearlong Job Corps program in Edinburgh, Ind., in which she learned to operate heavy equipment. Last week she started an apprenticeship that pays $15 an hour. "Job Corps saved my life," she says...
...years of labor, says troops used plastic handcuffs to tie her hands and a torn turban to gag her. "I felt certain they were going to kill me," she says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims. A villager produces his daughter Maba, 7, to act out how she says she was bound. "If they touch our women again we must ask ourselves why are we alive," says Shir Mohammed Stad. "We will have no choice but to fight back...
Relatives told the Washington Post they would find strength by remembering Waller’s resolve in the face of sorrow, including the death of her husband and daughter...
...this year, when their daughter looked towards graduation from Harvard Law School, she decided to “spice up” the ceremony for her folks...
...sequel that followed, Mona in the Promised Land, continued the story from the perspective of the family’s teenage daughter as she converts to Judaism...