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...grasped her potential. Besides the books, published worldwide by HarperCollins, and the magazine, published by News Magazines in Australia (both divisions of News Corp.), Hay has a pan-Australian newspaper column, which reaches roughly one-third of the nation's population. All of this while helping Wilson on their farm near Sydney...
...camping out under the elements because she couldn't afford to rebuild her cottage after it burned down. Today she has a $1.3 million, two-book deal with Random House's Clarkson Potter. In her first title, due out in 2005, Butters, who made not having to leave her farm to do a book tour a condition of signing the deal, is expected to address everything from livestock to slipcovers...
...want a glimpse into the challenge the U.S. faces as it tries to prevent Iraq from coming apart, consider the plight of Salim Izzat. Five months before the U.S. invasion last March, Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime ordered Izzat to vacate his farm outside the northern-Iraq town of Dibagan, 50 miles southeast of Mosul. The command was part of the regime's systematic, 15-year-long campaign to populate the predominantly Kurdish reaches of northern Iraq with ethnic Arabs. Kurds like Izzat were pushed out of their homes by force; dissenters, including Izzat's brother, were executed...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning former reporter for the New York Times, Shipler interviewed scores of people for this book--waitresses, shelf stockers, farm laborers, plus the social workers, union organizers and job trainers around them and the employers who take them on, not all of whom are crocodiles. His book lacks the first-person focus and angry wit of Nickel and Dimed, TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich's account of her attempts to get by on $6 or $7 an hour. But poverty is in the details, and he lays those out in abundance...
There are efforts under way to counter these economic injustices. Like the coffee served in Harvard’s dining halls, some cocoa is certified as being “fair trade.” Transfair USA, a non-profit organization, handles this certification process. Farm cooperatives that display satisfactory labor conditions and environmental standards are granted the designation, and receive a fair price (80 cents per pound instead of 50 cents) for the cocoa they produce. Fair trade chocolate is less available than fair trade coffee, but can still be purchased at Bread and Circus and the Harvest...