Word: seamstresses
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...town of Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through...
Charney's workers are relatively well paid: a top seamstress can earn $13 an hour, compared to 21c for her counterpart in Indonesia. Benefits at American Apparel include English classes and yoga, and on Mondays workers can visit a "health-care Winnebago" where registered nurses provide free services. Charney's wholesale prices range from $3 to $6 a T--double that of his big rivals. But Charney says his company earned "seven figures" last year...
...Federal Government like FEMA. That may be a mistake. If there is one thing more depressing than the number of reports on homeland security, it is the unanimity of their conclusions. At present, coordination simply doesn't happen; homeland defense is a patchwork quilt made by an inept seamstress. Some stories would be funny if they weren't being told against a backdrop of tragedy. There was the recent joint exercise of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, during which agents argued for an hour over who was in charge, while actors playing the dead...