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...Details of women trafficking are hard to come by. Like the drug trade, it takes place in a shadowy world where victims and witnesses are intimidated into silence. But dozens of interviews by Time with investigators, traffickers and women freed from bondage paint a harsh picture of medieval abuse and cruelty: during off hours women are kept in cellars, sleeping on the floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought...
Frequent travelers routinely book the first flight of the day to avoid the traffic jams that only get worse as the day progresses at the country's most congested airports. Also, flying out on an airline's early-morning plane means being freed from waiting for a connecting plane to arrive or for a new crew to make it in from Detroit. An added bonus: the parking spaces next to the terminal are empty...
...leaders and societies want to deny the problem, the corruption and incompetence that render them helpless is something the West cannot fix. But the fact that they are poor is not. The wealthy world must help with its zeal and its cash if southern Africa is ever to be freed of the AIDS plague...
...worry that students underestimate the importance of the upcoming decision. Presidents from Lowell to Pusey to Bok radically shaped the University and played major roles on the national stage. President Leverett freed Harvard from stifling Puritan control. President Eliot transformed the University from a small college to a modern institution and presided over Radcliffe's birth. President Lowell redesigned the liberal undergraduate curriculum and started the House system. President Conant introduced general education curriculum and initiated coeducation with Radcliffe. Beginning with Pusey, Presidents have improved University finances through fundraising and have shaped the College in important ways. Bok began...
...leaning out of the windows carrying Libyan flags and chanting anti-American and anti-British slogans. But it wasn't a big demonstration. Life appears to be going on as usual, and people are putting a lot of hope in Megrahi's appeal, hoping that he'll be freed...