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Whether or not they choose to acknowledge it, most people know that immigrant and migrant workers are paid poorly in the U.S. What they may not know is how hard these laborers toil for their earnings. That's why Gabriel Thompson, a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y., spent months undercover working alongside mostly Guatemalans and Mexicans in the lettuce fields of Yuma, Ariz., at a chicken plant in rural Alabama and as a delivery guy for a restaurant in New York City. His goal was not to survive on his income, which he quickly realized was nearly impossible even...
...American, I was proud to read about the role the U.S. military is playing in rebuilding this nation. President Obama and Congress should offer potential enlistees in all branches of the armed services the option to be sent only to Haiti. There are many Americans who may not support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who would surely enlist in a volunteer effort to help assist Haitians recovering from the horrible earthquake...
Nutty as "mycotecture" sounds, Ross may be onto something bigger than an art project. A promising start-up named Ecovative is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. (about 930 sq m) myco-factory in Green Island, N.Y. "We see this as a whole new material, a woodlike equivalent to plastic," says CEO Eben Bayer. The three-year-old company has been awarded grants from the EPA and the National Science Foundation, as well as the Department of Agriculture--because its mushrooms feast on empty seed husks from rice or cotton. "You can't even feed it to animals," says Bayer...
...fact is, I enjoyed any occasion to spend time with Bob. The casual observer who may have seen us play golf or hunt over the past 50 years might have thought we were wasting our time if our goal was to demonstrate any true proficiency. But they would have missed the point. The real goal, for me at least, was to spend time with a man who loved life, loved his wonderful family and was patriotic to the core...
With 51 colleges and universities in the Boston metropolitan area, you wouldn't think that Boston would be dead last on the list, but several of the factors were based on driving-related statistics. So the calculations may have skewed the data by overlooking the role of Boston's public transportation...