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...safest work in the world. But, back home for a month's leave, Cinavilakeba is already planning his return. "It's exciting," he says with a grin. "And with our military background" - he and his fellow security guards are all former soldiers - "the threat to our lives is not that big." The rewards, however, are huge. Global Risk International, the security company he works for, pays its Fijian employees upwards of $1,500 a month, 10 times what they'd earn as security guards at home. "After another six-month tour," says the trim 47-year-old, "I will probably...
...over-the-counter sale, which only underscores the unacceptable interference of politics in the FDA’s previous decision. While opponents worry that over-the-counter availability of the drug will result in more risky sexual behavior amongst teenagers, here it seems that science also disagrees. In a six-month study of women who were given a supply of emergency contraception to keep at home, researchers found that they were no more likely to have unprotected sex than those without unrestricted access to the drug. Other studies have shown that access to the drug did not increase teenagers?...
PETITION, signed by a dozen of Iraq's leading political groups demanding a six-month postponement of the election scheduled for Jan. 30; the government announced it would proceed as planned...
...exile in Amman and we have to face them." Some of these same people harassed him and made it difficult for him to find work in Iraq. He'd love to give them a piece of his mind, but Jamal says nothing, fearing the loss of his six-month visitor's visa. Instead, he just stares and tenses up. Jamal is one of tens of thousands of poor and middle-class Iraqis who have arrived in Jordan in recent months to escape the chaos in their native country. He flew into Amman in June, after local insurgents killed his father...
This past summer UNITY released a six-month study on diversity in the Washington press with the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. According to the census, less than ten percent of journalists in the Washington daily newspapers press corps are of color. It revealed a mere portion of a national trend of racial disparities among influential newspapers, one that The Harvard Crimson follows. Of the few hundred active editors that compose The Crimson’s nine boards, fewer than twenty are black or Hispanic. Asian students fare better, holding approximately forty positions...