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Eight years later, the memory of those traumas aren't far from her mind as Kim moves briskly through the streets of a town not far from Bangkok. It's just before dawn, the daily chaos of noise and traffic still hours away. Kim (a pseudonym she used to protect her family in North Korea) is about to meet, for the first time, the men responsible for saving her life. One is Kim Sang Hun, a lay Christian from Seoul. The other is the Rev. Tim Peters, a soft-spoken evangelical Christian pastor from Benton Harbor, Mich., who runs...
...dramatic drop in Lake Victoria's water level is caused by Uganda taking more water than it agreed to. Kenya and Tanzania claim the drop has reduced hydropower generation, causing outages. Mohammed Kassas, a Nile expert at Cairo University, questions whether the Nile Basin countries can be trusted to protect the environment in their quest for rapid development. "If it is done in the framework of sustainable development, then it would be O.K.," he says. "But if every country goes ahead, doing as it likes, natural systems tend to kick back." The World Bank's Grey says that coordinating development...
...north before she was taken back to Baghdad, drugged with pills, dressed in a suicide belt and sent to bomb a cleric's office in Khadamiyah, where she turned herself in to the police. A judge gave her a seven-year jail sentence "for her sake" to protect her from the gang, according to the prison director...
...rumors that the men paid their way out of jail and are back on the streets. "I don't know what to do if the prison administration decides to release me," says Asmah, pushing back her gray head scarf to adjust her black hair. "We have no one to protect...
...American workers face. This doesn’t mean that the U.S. should try to get rid of immigrants. This would be impossible, inhumane, and unnecessary. Immigrants pose no threat to American workers unless their vulnerability is exploited to drive down the price of their labor. The way to protect native workers is to protect immigrant workers, and this must be done through strong policies for all workers. Both immigrants and natives need strong, democratic unions to represent their interests. Both need strong workplace protections that are actually enforced. And both need a political system that serves the interests...