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...business and the jobs we create - that's what he means by a green-collar economy. Over the years, manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs have been gradually outsourced from the U.S. That has hit the working class especially hard, in both cities and rural areas, because decent-paying blue-collar employment is what pulls people out of poverty and into the middle class. At the same time, it's the working class that has also borne the brunt of the high energy prices that result from America's dependence on foreign oil. As the recession darkens, that double bind...
...critic in me says, some of the plot twists emerge from the House of Astonishing Coincidences. And every character is designed either to point Lily in the right direction (the women) or to dramatize the rural bigotry she's trying to escape (the white men). I wish T. Ray, well played by Bettany, had been given some spark of ambiguity, some inner life beyond his meanness; and that June - her arms folded in disapproval, like a stern nun concealing a ruler in her sleeves - didn't have to endure the standard redemption process of being enlightened, converted, broken. But this...
...writes, "can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs." The privileged Westerner winces. Yet in an upbeat, inquisitive manner, George travels the sludge-filled world--from the sewers of New York City to the latrine pits of Tanzania to plumbing-deprived rural India--breaking one of our last taboos for an insightful discussion of health policy. For the average reader, though, a treatise on toilets (or the lack thereof) can be simply too much to stomach. A series of articles was plenty on this topic; reading a whole book on the subject...
Born to parents who were early supporters of Hitler's National Socialist party, Haider never held national office, preferring to work behind the scenes while keeping his post as governor of the mostly rural southern province of Carinthia. In 1999 he led the rightist Freedom Party to 27% of the national vote, a result that triggered outrage in Europe and, ultimately, sanctions from the E.U. In last month's elections, the far right had its best showing since World War II, with support from nearly 50% of Austrians under age 30--an outcome that ensures that Haider's divisive legacy...
...like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines' clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity--and no government program can teach this...