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Maria, a 17-year old girl who is quoted on the pamphlet distributed by Polaris Project, an anti-trafficking organization, describes what it is like to be trapped in this sort of brothel: “We worked six days a week and twelve hours a day. We mostly had...

Author: By Loui Itoh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Worst Form of Slavery | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

It is also very difficult to prosecute these cases. Only four states, Texas, Washington, Missouri and Florida, have laws against trafficking in human beings. Despite all the federal laws passed against sexual slavery, regional US Attorney offices do not have the resources to prosecute every trafficker under the federal statutes...

Author: By Loui Itoh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Worst Form of Slavery | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

COVER: Sunrise: Malcolm Fife--Getty Images; Bush, Kerry: Jay L. Clendenin--Polaris Images

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Nov. 1, 2004 | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

Empedocles doesn't expect his product to reach market until 2006. With $70 million in venture funding from Arch Ventures, Polaris and Lux Capital, along with multimillion-dollar U.S. government contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, the 35...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: More Power To You | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

--NATURAL RESOURCES The price of metals and other raw materials is rising. Bernard Horn, manager of the Polaris Global Value fund, is overweighting resource-rich South Africa and buying the stocks of materials companies around the globe like paper firms Sappi in South Africa (ADR up 18% in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Investing: Float Your Bucks | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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