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...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," said the letter, which urged people to report casual labor abuses to the union. "At least a small number of those are facing real economic hardship. We can not look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...
...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," said the letter, which urged people to report casual labor abuses to the union. "At least a small number of those are facing real economic hardship. We can not look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...
...civilization to an ancient roughness--man vs. nature, life or death, that sort of thing. The recent successes of stories like The Perfect Storm, Into Thin Air and The Endurance would suggest that the E-ZPass, "we deliver" world is yearning--if only in its dreams--for situations of hardship and danger. Death doesn't even seem to attend war anymore; Kosovo showed that a push-button war could be casualty-free, at least for those who pushed the buttons. Routine phrases today such as "living on the edge" and "pushing the envelope" only indicate how smooth most surfaces...
...after we shot some walk-and-talk through the tunnels, during which I was interviewing John about luck and hardship and the resemblance between opal mining and professional gambling (which is very strong), the director Chris Spencer asked John to go at a face with the air hammer. He obligingly did, talking meanwhile about how he hadn't found an opal in weeks. Then he asked me if I'd like to have a go. I took the air hammer and started ripping some sandstone off the wall. And then, suddenly, there was a shrill noise, somewhere between a crunch...
...Gorman, to learn if nighttime lighting was worth looking into as a source of increasing levels of myopia. They didn?t impose some key controls on the research, such as whether the children in the study had nearsighted parents. In the meantime, considering it?s not much of a hardship to switch off the lights, obviously it would seem prudent to let a child under two sleep in the dark. At the same time, it makes sense not to get obsessive about it: "This doesn?t mean you have to change the diaper in the dark," says Gorman...