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Karl Marx once wrote that "the worker becomes an ever-cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates." His observation was published 160 years ago, but it's an accurate commentary on the plight of millions of Chinese like Chen Suo, a 16-year-old assembly-line worker at shoe manufacturer Stella International located in the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province. Chen returned to her home in Shaanxi province in disgrace earlier this month after spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things...
...store moved its shoe selection, which was adjacent to the main location at 37A Brattle St., to another storefront five doors down on Sunday. A third store carrying men and women’s denim will move into the old shoe store location in two weeks...
Luciano Manganella, who founded JasmineSola in Harvard Square in 1970, said that he moved the shoe store to 29 Brattle St. in order to present his merchandise more attractively, not because JasmineSola’s business is thriving. “Business in the Square has diminished over the last couple of years [and] rents are prohibitive,” Manganella said...
Chinese pirate companies have long been accused of illegally copying easy stuff like shoe polish and digital movies. Now General Motors says a Chinese firm knocked off an entire vehicle--and Americans could soon start buying its cars. A unit of GM last month filed a lawsuit in Shanghai accusing Chery Automobile Co., the Chinese automaker, of filching production-line blueprints for a compact car, the Chevrolet Spark, which GM says cost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to develop. Chery's car, called the QQ, does indeed look like an identical twin to the Spark and comes in candy colors...
...hiding ten pounds of C4 in her thong. Instead, they should focus on developing search systems that can examine all passengers equaIly and efficiently. Secondly, screeners focused on trying to get a free peep show are apt to miss the terrorist with a bomb in his shoe, because apparently he’s not sexy enough to warrant a search...