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...Would being the first to set foot on Mars earn Americans more respect from other nations? With the money needed to fund a Mars landing, surely the U.S. could do lots of good work around the globe. Why not make friends with earthlings before engaging the Martians? Junan Ecijan Melbourne, Australia...
...pickers who have exorbitant housing costs deducted by labor contractors who warehouse the workers in filthy barracks. As for garment workers, they can be paid at piece rates--try three-fourths of a cent per piece to sew in a zipper on jeans--that make it nearly impossible to earn the minimum...
Would being the first to set foot on Mars earn Americans more respect from other nations? Why not concentrate on making friends with earthlings before engaging the Martians? Junan Ecijan Melbourne, Australia...
...neck. He's the CEO of National Textiles, a T-shirtmaker in a U.S. state that has lost more than 37,000 textile jobs since the U.S. lifted quotas on Chinese imports two years ago. Unless Rowland's North Carolina workers suddenly become competitive with Chinese counterparts who earn just a few dollars a day, he fears his employees will be next. Rowland ticks off what he regards as China's unfair advantages: excessive government protection, an underpriced currency, cowed and underpaid workers, exports dumped below cost. If Washington won't help, he says, he'll have to move some...
...Besides the money that goes toward ending the larger problem of violence against women, V-Day also attempts to earn cultural change by ritualizing the celebration of womanhood on a personal and global level,” she says...