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...foreign inmates at the Los Teques prisons, a kilo of cocaine bought for $2,000 in South America can fetch around $25,000 in Europe - some prisoners were paid $4,000 for every kilo they carried, and could cart 10-12 kilos on any given trip. The pay scale makes it a tough profession to quit, even for middle-class twenty-somethings from the industrialized world for whom the price may include doing time at Los Teques...
...true, for example, that most conventional heating and cooling systems are rife with energy inefficiencies on a far greater scale than household lighting. Unfortunately, environmentally friendly heating systems are still prohibitively costly for most consumers. Light bulbs are not. If we always discount every feasible solution as too minor, we will simply end up doing nothing...
...playgoing experience due as much to the latter quality as to the former. For most of the year, Harvard STAGE (Student Theater Advancing Growth & Empowerment) is a charitable student organization that educates Boston-area middle school students about theater. In May, however, the group traditionally puts on one full-scale production. Its latest work, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s “The Fantasticks,” is largely a paint-by-numbers show. Directors Laura S. Hirschberg ’09 and Sean P. Bala ’09 chose to stage the play...
...Obviously you want your arguments to be well presented as well as well thought through. But because of the scale of the challenges that every country faces - whether it's terrorism and the need for security... or economic competition and the need for new policies for prosperity - I think people are looking to politics not for gestures, they're looking to politics for a seriousness about addressing the challenges ahead...
...benefit from a global economy, but you've also got to show - and this is where sometimes the debate has fallen down - that you will help people get the skills and education and infrastructure to benefit from globalization. Globalization can be a force for justice on a global scale or it can be seen as the benefit going to a small section of the community at the expense of the rest...