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...will think of telegrams and maybe that '60s frat-rock song of the same name. But in the rest of the world, Western Union means money. Having converted its wire traffic from text messages to cash, Western Union increasingly serves as a rough-and-ready bank for millions of migrant workers who send part of their pay to loved ones back home, whether from an Arizona broccoli field to a Mexican village or from a Saudi oil field to Bombay. As the pace of global migration quickens, so does the business of Western Union, which this year will...
...Because most of the 3 million people who find themselves in C.-and-R. centers each year belong to the country's floating population of migrant laborers?the lowest of the low in China's quickly re-emerging class pyramid?abuses tend to be overlooked except in the most egregious cases. Although several of these instances have made it into the national press, they rarely elicit calls for reform...
Even for a White House in which staff members pride themselves on being low-key, Alberto Gonzales is inconspicuous. The flashiest thing he has done recently is briefly regrow his mustache. And yet the modest, Harvard-educated lawyer has a riveting story. The son of migrant workers in Texas, he grew up in a house his dad built, sharing two bedrooms with seven siblings. With no running hot water, the family boiled their bathwater on the stove. No phone meant that Gonzales had to walk to the corner pay phone to call his friends. Even the town's name...
...cities enjoy decent medical care, the network of doctors, clinics and hospitals serving the rural poor are simply unavailable to huge swaths of the population. Preventable scourges like tuberculosis and hepatitis B ravage the countryside, infant mortality is creeping upward after decades in decline?and now, with millions of migrant workers leaving their jobs in cities and streaming back to the hinterlands to escape SARS, it seems inevitable that some will infect villagers in places least able to cope with a medical crisis. If that happens, China and the world could lose a chance to eradicate a disease that...
...problem. Now, China's central government is playing a desperate game of catch-up as the number of reported SARS cases ticks ever upward?there were more than 3,900 confirmed patients, 2,500 suspected cases and 190 deaths as of last weekend. If the tide of nervous migrant workers continues to disperse the disease into the countryside, the fear that has already gripped the capital could spread nationwide...