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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Lawyers for the farm workers say that the big growers, who own the land and who most profit by the workers' labors, have little incentive to ensure adequate water and shade because farm-labor contractors employ the farm workers. In addition, says the lawsuit, employers see little reason to comply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Sunshine: The Plight of California's Farm Workers | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

Biggs demonstrated that same flamboyance during three decades on the run. After his escape from prison in 1965, he fled to Paris, where he underwent plastic surgery and obtained new identity papers, which he used to enter Australia. In 1969 he got wind that authorities had tracked him to Melbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Great Train Robber' Freed from Jail | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

Today on the Lower East Side, cultures new and old butt up against one another in an uneasy but (to the outsider) exhilarating whorl: a mere corner of a city block can contain a Mexican vendor selling sweet flavored ice, a Middle Eastern cart full of fresh mangoes, a Dominican...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Yesterday and Today | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

Zombies are what we feel like at our worst: slogging through a winter workday, standing in a long line at airport security, waking up with a hangover. Vampires speak to the romantic in us, to our need for human contact, teeth to neck. They embody everything erotic about the predatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thirst: Why Vampires Beat Zombies | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

Palin made a wise choice to escape the vicissitudes of cutthroat politics. No doubt that as a true champion she will come back in due time for another round. Jacques Gilly, DELRAY BEACH, FLA., U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope for the Future | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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