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...numerous self-help seminars, where factory girls pay to learn how to improve themselves and find better jobs: "It was the strangest jumble of ideas I had ever encountered, combining the primacy of the individual with rules that were at once New Age and rigid...the message was modern - express yourself, be confident - but it came with traditional assumptions: You will lift up your whole family....I noticed something: the students did not fall asleep. They did not look bored. No one ever left to use the bathroom during the two-hour class; they were afraid they might miss something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Factories | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...cannot begin to express how...proud, amazed, humbled, and in awe I stand before and next to him as a friend and supporter of such great human endeavors,” she wrote...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Koh To Play in North Korea | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

London Calling. London's Stansted Airport, a low-fare airline hub, has been approved for expansion, which will increase its yearly flight capacity by nearly 10%, from 241,000 flights to 264,000 flights. The airport, located 45 minutes from London by express train, currently has one runway; plans to build a second one may get off the ground as early as 2009. (Also, in a few months, the U.K. government will determine whether Heathrow gets a third runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Italy Promises Star Ratings for Hotels | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...familiar to almost any viewer who has taken in a sports film in the last 30 years. For better or worse—and with respect to creative innovation, I would argue worse—you know what you’re getting with “The Express:” an uplifting sports film through and through. “The Express” tells the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black football player to win college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. Davis hailed from Elmira...

Author: By Alec N. Halaby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'The Express' | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the historic 2005 deal that ended Sudan's 21-year civil war. According to the CPA, neither North nor South Sudan is allowed to rearm in the period before a 2011 referendum is held on South Sudanese independence - unless they have express permission from a Joint Defense Board, which is then obligated to inform the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan. A spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Sudan tells TIME that the mission has received no such information about the tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Somali Pirates: Tanks, but No Tanks | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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