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...industry's margins, overall, make it tough to book stellar profits. Experienced technical translators in Western Europe and the U.S. earn upwards of $80,000 a year, and project managers with strong linguistic skills command even higher pay. Despite a recent wave of consolidation, dozens of small companies still duke it out; the business remains a buyer's market. "Microsoft has the money and dictates prices," says industry association chief Anobile. "Clients rule...
...writer, women's rights activist and mental health counselor in Toronto. Her latest children's book is 'The Breadwinner', published this month by Oxford University Press. The novel follows a young Afghan girl living in poverty under the Taliban who is forced to masquerade as a boy to earn food for her family. Billed as the only children's book available on current life in Afghanistan, interest in The Breadwinner has surged as parents struggle to explain the events of recent months to their children...
...couple of years back in Canada and I was in Pakistan interviewing women for an adult non- fiction book called 'Women of the Afghan War'. I met a woman whose daughter was in Kabul doing what the girl in the novel does, masquerading as a boy to earn a living for her family, and I thought that would make a really interesting children's novel...
...begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50[cents] on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces. Eight months ago he was killed by a stray rocket. "There is no work for women," Sabza says. "We had nobody to look after the family, so I came to Kabul." Now that the Taliban...
...undercover agents at Detroit's Northwest Airlines terminal sneaked a fake bomb through an X-ray machine; the airline subsequently canceled its contract with Argenbright at that airport. FAA investigators have discovered Argenbright employees who do not speak English and others who are undocumented immigrants. Its workers earn the equivalent of burger flippers at fast-food restaurants, and it has a turnover rate of nearly 400% at some airports. Argenbright employees were at the security posts at Dulles and Newark when the Sept. 11 hijackers slipped through, but they are not being held negligent in that situation...