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...birds, estimates Kok. "We don't really understand them," he says. "They are wild animals. We find that they like to stay in dark areas. But at one hotel in Malacca they are nesting in bright light." Lucky producers can harvest two to four pounds of nests a month, worth up to $500 per pound ($1,100 per kg). Middlemen are buying up all the nests they can source, usually as quietly as possible. "They come to your doorstep and pay you cash," says Kok. "This business is a very secretive thing, because they're not paying...
...frustrated by its plight. In France that term is jeunes diplômés. In Greece, Generation 600. And in Spain its members are called mileuristas. "The mileurista," explains Daniel Lostao, president of the Youth Council of Spain, "is someone who earns €1,000 ($1,300) a month, despite all their education and training. They've got master's degrees and speak multiple languages, but they can only get a low-end job, where they're lucky to earn €1,000 a month. It makes you wonder: what's the point of going to university...
...young. Ivan, who does not want his last name used, actually has a job: he starts his days at 4 a.m. on Vigo's docks, hauling fish for his parents' wholesale business. But these days, he and his family have a hard time getting to the end of the month. Which is why, he says, he now trafficks drugs. That's not so unusual in a port known as a major point of entry for cocaine, but there is something about the nonchalance with which Ivan confesses it that underscores his despair. Asked if he expects to surpass his parents...
...hairstylist, lives with her husband Jesús in one of the new apartments. Jesús has a steady job as a civil servant, and the couple's mortgage, thanks to the government's help, is just €400 ($520) a month. But her sense of dread is palpable. "We used to have 10 clients a day," she says of the salon where she works. "Now I can go from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. without a single customer. Do you know what it's like to sit around all day, just hoping that someone will walk through...
...SARAH PALIN, on risking her political future by announcing on July 3 that she would resign as governor of Alaska at the end of the month...