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...farmers and fishermen who live in jungle villages along the southern coast of Burma were long overlooked and neglected by their government. And they liked it that way, given the notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies, the U.S. giant Unocal and its French partner Total, began exploiting natural-gas deposits offshore. The gas discovery prompted construction of a $1.2 billion pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them...
...carrying out those deadly raids. His base is Fallujah, the town 30 miles west of Baghdad that has become the epicenter of the insurgency. Ahmed, 40, who won't allow his real name to be published for fear of leading the Americans to him, looks more like a simple farmer than a killer: deeply etched lines radiate from the corners of his eyes, and his face is anchored by a stubbly salt-and-pepper beard. But his intentions are lethal. "If you come like a friend, we will say, 'Welcome,' and help you," he says. "But if you come like...
...safe house and gulped down an entire washbasin filled with rice and chives. It was the most satisfying meal Ryu remembers ever eating. Soon after, she was sold by the North Korean middleman to a Chinese smuggler for $36. In turn, the Changbai dealer sold her to a Chinese farmer in a village near the Jilin town of Baishan for $600. They now have a four-year-old daughter, and the farmer treats Ryu well. His family trusts her so much that she's even in charge of the family finances. Ryu has another child from her marriage...
Later in the forum, a classmate asked what Harvard’s role should be in helping to create what Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul E. Farmer calls an “equity plan” for the distribution of technological advances. Summers responded by implying that my colleague lacked hope and was ungrateful, saying “there’s a tendency in this to defeatism and not recognizing the enormous amount of what is good that is happening in the world.... People think the Marshall Plan was really very good. The Marshall Plan provided Europe with...
...protect his identity, the rice farmer is known only as "John Doe Number 8" in a lawsuit in which he and 14 other unnamed victims accuse Unocal of "aiding and abetting" the abuses carried out by the Burmese soldiers. The villagers, assisted by American labor activists, have asked U.S. courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial scheduled for December in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield...