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...avoid being sent home." Recent cases of undocumented workers getting pressganged into near slave-like conditions aboard fishing vessels in the river deltas of Southeast Asia have dramatized how vulnerable destitute migrants are to exploitation. Abella also warns that women migrants may fall into the sex trade and become prey to networks of human traffickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Migrant Workers: A Hard Life Gets Harder | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...really say how it feels, but the process itself is not a sadistic torturous process. When you look at the ducks that have just been fed and the ones about to be fed, there is not a perceptible difference between them. The counter-argument is that ducks are prey animals and are conditioned not to show you if they're suffering. And if you've got a liver that's 10 times its normal size, a duck is going to be uncomfortable. But a duck being uncomfortable in the last days before it's slaughtered, is that torture? I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...After a pause, he corrects himself with a laugh: "You know what, by saying that I'm almost sure I'm falling prey to all these biases. That's the nature of these biases. They don't go away just because you know about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Predict What You'll Like? Ask a Stranger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...This is the wrong way to think. Harvard Republicans should show more confidence against their opponents and more solidarity with their allies. Otherwise, they will fall prey to the strategy that the majority routinely employs against the minority: divide and conquer. When Republicans point fingers at each other, Democrats pick up the scraps...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Rockefeller Republicans | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...hillsides, gleeful that nobody is around to be disturbed by the whine of their engines. Through the years, this isolation has made the area popular for dumping the occasional unwanted body. "We have seen remains on the West Side," said Walsh, "They might be ancient bones or those fallen prey to violence. But this is a first for us, in the number of remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albuquerque's Mysterious Mass Grave | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

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