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...requires only comfortable shoes and a wad of George Washingtons. While no one openly begs here and Cubans are almost universally polite, they're also hungry. If you ask directions or take a picture of an old woman in flowered headdress smoking a cigar, be prepared to fork over a dollar...
...situation, he nonetheless cannot do anything about it. He remembers "lying frozen, crying because I was too frightened to take a shower, and at the same time knowing that showers are not scary." He is "defeated by the difficulty of getting a piece of lamb chop onto my fork...
...juice. And the message they delivered to Huang Mei-shu that day last August was almost too horrible to contemplate. "We have your sister," they said. "She stinks. Pay $5,000 if you want her back in one piece." Huang's first instinct was to avoid trouble and fork over the cash. But times were tough for the Taipei slum-dweller, and the most she could rustle up was $500?a sum the kidnappers gruffly rejected. Scared and desperate, she went to the police. They refused to help...
...illness is unthinkable: Who, then, would support his wife and child back home? But already, nausea, headaches, dizziness, skin rashes and vomiting are part of his daily routine. Ape, as Alfred's friends call him, works in a processing unit like Femmy's. He has difficulty just holding a fork or spoon in his hands, which tremble as he stretches them out in front of his taut, muscular frame. His wife, who lives with their daughter on the island of Sangir, north of Manado, has asked him to find other work, but the money is too good to give...
...other companies to have a formal policy encouraging virtual management. That may be because tech companies are generally more willing to invest in the hardware and software that are needed to make long-distance supervision work. "Surprisingly, one of the biggest problems is that some people will not fork over the cash for the technology," says Mareen Duncan Fisher, a consultant based in Portland, Ore., and co-author of The Distance Manager...