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...Working Two years ago, Yuma Sector was the busiest jurisdiction in the entire border patrol. This 118-mile (190 km) stretch of border in western Arizona and eastern California was a well-known gap through which people and drugs flowed north while guns and money went south. The harsh desert on either side was crosshatched with smugglers' roads, trampled by the footprints of thousands of "walkers," some of whom dropped dead from thirst. In the city of San Luis, Ariz., so-called banzai runs were a near nightly occurrence. Scores of people would gather on the Mexican side and dash...
...November 2002, senior U.S. military lawyers internally protested the use of these harsh techniques. But, with some exceptions, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved such methods for use at Guantanamo. Later, many were again used at Abu Ghraib...
...final witness of the day was former Pentagon general counsel William Haynes. He admitted that he had never read the strongly worded objections to the harsh techniques filed by lawyers from all four branches of the military. Instead, Haynes said he approved many of those harsh methods based on a memo written by Beaver - a memo described by a number of experts as riddled with errors and flawed legal reasoning...
...caveat emptor as our creed, to let the junk food we so clearly love flow freely into the marketplace--and if you can't be bothered to hunt up some vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own. But if that philosophy seems harsh when we're dealing with adults--not to mention blind to the enormous health-care costs that will burden the nation--it's positively heartless toward children. An Oglala Sioux on the reservation, a first-generation Hispanic American in L.A., a poor white kid in the hills of West Virginia...
...saying she hadn't been aware of conditions at the factory. For corporations and consumers alike, it brought home the realization that globalized production comes at a price: the cheap labor that lured multinationals to developing countries often goes hand in hand with less appealing hallmarks of developing nations - harsh working conditions and unenforced labor laws. Governments in most developing nations weren't monitoring conditions, so Western firms found themselves "held responsible for problems they didn't really know existed," says Daniel Viederman, executive director of Verité, a U.S.-based NGO that investigates workplace conditions globally...