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Critics point out that the Mexican maquilas have drained jobs from the U.S. side. Allen says those jobs were leaving anyway. And even though the Rio Grande Valley remains one of the nation's poorest regions, a lucrative new companion industry--logistics and technical support--has helped boost job growth 7% last year in the McAllen area, the best in Texas. The 2,000 mostly American maquila professionals who cross the bridge daily into Reynosa bring in $1 million a year in tolls alone for the city of McAllen. "If Reynosa is not doing well," says city manager Mike Perez...
...together until December 19?hen their report is due to University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers?nd last week? meeting marked the beginning of the group? mission to fuse economic principles with concepts of moral responsibility to form a viable set of recommendations about how Harvard should pay its poorest workers...
...founded by Wikler, John E. Raskin `03 and Andy D. Litinsky `04, has an e-mail list of about 200 people and represents just one of the ways in which students and faculty across the University have stepped up the campaign against AIDS in some of the world's poorest nations...
...page statement, released April 4, says, "We believe that on moral, health, social and economic grounds the international community should provide the scientific and financial leadership for a rapid scaling-up of AIDS treatment in the poorest and hardest-hit countries of the world...
...Their devotion to public service has only increased over the years. Currently, Bono is working on Jubilee 2000 and its Debt Relief Campaign, aimed at convincing the world's eight richest nations to cancel the debt owed by Africa's poorest countries...