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Despite Equal Exchange's efforts, there's still a long way to go before coffee growers will have a fair deal. Serious problems persist for coffee producers in developing nations. Commodity prices have languished well below $1 per lb. for much of the past two decades, so crops have often been sold at a loss, leading many families to abandon their farms for a better life in the cities. "It's forcing families who have depended on coffee for income into destitution," says Matthew Aho, who is producing a documentary on Fair Trade's impact on Peruvian farmers...
ANTHONY ROMERO 2005 A.C.L.U. executive director and one of TIME's 25 Most Influential Hispanics I nominate "Ghost Detainee X," representing almost 30 prisoners held incommunicado, without legal rights or access to counsel, in a network of secret prisons in Europe and Asia. Their existence raises serious doubts about whether or not we are betraying the best of American values...
...quiet giant of American literature, the maniacally prolific Vollmann won this year's National Book Award for his wildly ambitious, deeply serious panorama of life in Germany and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. With an empathy and insight that border on the psychic, Vollmann inhabits the lives of spies and generals, traitors and switchboard operators and artists (including the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich), all caught in the steel machines of war and fascism...
...Cool New World Your article "Biochips For Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Nov. 14]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activities. People might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone who did not have a biochip could not live and work in this...
...Then the SWAT team came on," he says. "These men are serious. They came in methodically. They said, 'Hands on your heads and don't move.' There were machine guns and shot guns everywhere. They let you know they were going to use them...