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Fave part about Harvard: Gabe, the Mather shuttle driver...
...friends and cousins, who just hang around doing nothing, said to me, Why do you want to work? Others believed I thought I was now better than them because I had a job and money." Bright-eyed and polite, Wager is contemplating further hospitality training, modeling, obtaining her driver's license and buying a car. At the nearby Moree Panel Works, Joe Tighe, 19, is putting in another day as a spray painter. Winner of an Apprentice of the Year award, Tighe is an AES poster boy and a rare, non-sporting success story in these parts - in spite...
...recent morning, Ivy Washington is in front of a computer terminal at the Moree AES. The 54-year-old grandmother, recently widowed, tentatively taps away at the keyboard. Washington is near the end of a 12-week course to update basic skills. She's gained her driver's license, completed a first-aid course and would like a stint of work experience...
Asia could be heading for trouble again. And it's for an all too familiar reason: currency gyrations. Lacking in solid support from internal demand?especially private consumption?Asia has long been overly dependent on exports as its main driver of economic growth. As such, it is highly sensitive to swings in currency markets, which ultimately define the terms on which Asia exchanges its goods with the rest of the world...
...transfers worked. Nine years ago, Cornelio Zamora left his home in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, paying a smuggler $2,500 to take him across the Rio Grande into the U.S. He had been unable to support his wife and four children on the $7 a day he earned as a bus driver. Working as a house painter in San Jose, California, Zamora, 48, now sends about $700 a month home. His wife says she has based all family decisions - where to send the children to school, what house to live in - on Zamora's monthly earnings "on the other side." In migrants...