Word: plantes
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While I was pleased to see your reporting on how U.S. poultry farmers are guarding their flocks against avian flu [March 20], I was disappointed that the story did not mention the thousands of poultry workers, growers, chicken catchers and processing-plant workers who, through intense daily contact with the commercial birds, are in the gravest danger. No U.S. agency is discussing the day-to-day contact that poultry workers have with potentially infected birds. To avoid an outbreak of avian flu, growers, poultry companies, unions and the government must work together to ensure that workers have proper protection...
...much exhilaration ... Teng's determination to modernize China's backward industry by the year 2000 led him to request tours of the advanced technology production lines for which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr. swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour guide: Henry Ford II. Dinner that night at the mansion of Georgia Governor George Busbee will feature spinach soufflé, thinly sliced veal and vanilla mousse--all foods especially selected for eaters unskilled in the use of a knife and fork. TIME...
...market--many for Palm Sunday, when Christians commemorate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem five days before his Crucifixion. This Sunday, 281 churches in 34 states will mark the occasion with "eco-palms." Cooperatives in Mexico and Guatemala have agreed to harvest sustainably, taking only a few fronds per plant. Churches pay premium prices, helping the workers who collect the fronds. "We must be good to our neighbors," says Pastor Glenn Berg-Moberg of St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn. "Even ones we will never meet...
...only thing that can work, and that is attrition. Attrition through enforcement: instead of allowing the illegal population to grow every year, we start enforcing the law inside the country, something we don't do at all unless your name is Mohammed and you work inside a nuclear power plant. After we've reasserted control over the illegal population through enforcement, then we can have a debate about whether we legalize some of the people here or not. The public is already in favor of immigration enforcement. It's an élite commitment that's lacking. It's the business...
...also surfaced in the Tyson case. The two Tyson managers who pleaded guilty contended that they had been forced to hire illegals because Tyson refused to pay wages that would let them attract American workers. One of those two managers was Truley Ponder, who worked at Tyson's processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. In documents filed as part of Ponder's guilty plea, the U.S. Attorney's office noted, "Ponder would have preferred for the plant to hire 'local people,' but this was not feasible in light of the low wages that Tyson paid, the low unemployment rate...