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...them a concise summary that's impressive coming from a teen - but not exactly groundbreaking. Except, perhaps, to the financial set: an inexplicably enthused Morgan Stanley published Robson's anecdotes online under the lofty title "How Teenagers Consume Media," and the report spread across the Web from there. Edward Hill-Wood, executive director of the media team for Morgan Stanley's European branch, told the Guardian he was inundated with requests about the report. What exactly did Robson reveal? Well...
...labor groups whose members help assemble the planes - the AFL-CIO, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the United Steelworkers - have urged lawmakers to keep them in production. With F-22 plants and suppliers spread across 44 states, there's a lot of support on Capitol Hill for keeping it in production. Senator Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican who has thousands of constituents working on the planes at the Lockheed-Martin plant in Marietta, wants to keep those voters employed. He solicited a letter from the retiring head of the Air Force's Air Combat Command...
...town. BRE pays wages of up to $600 a month for a heavy plant operator and Baines reckons the number of shops in Buchanan has doubled since BRE arrived. Buchanan suddenly has a third-division soccer team, in which Baines plays striker. "It's moving so quickly," says Nelson Hill, 39, BRE's nursery manager. "When the company arrived, people were just sitting around. Most people had never had a job. Now people are singing in the fields." McCall MacBain, who plans to replicate the model elsewhere in Africa, says the most common reaction he receives from aid workers...
Rebuilding institutions takes time and many Liberians are frustrated as Johnson Sirleaf tries to get the state working. But they know she stands for better times. "Before, the only work was fighting," says BRE nursery manager Hill. "Now there's a new vision for our people. The idea of a gun is being replaced by the idea of a job." There in a sentence is the new hope for Liberia, and all Africa...
...charges of betraying state secrets. After her prison term, she was exiled in 2005, and she now lives in the Washington area, where she leads the World Uyghur Congress. Pressure from the U.S. was instrumental in securing her release, and she has forged strong contacts on Capitol Hill. "To blame the civil disturbances and bloodshed on human-rights leader Rebiya Kadeer is ludicrous," Representative Chris Smith, a senior member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement. "But it is typical of Chinese officials attempting to hide the government's cruelty that in fact created the unrest...