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...another avenue to the way, the truth and the life. The African Heritage Study Bible (Winston-Derek Publishers; $39.95) keeps to the King James Version and adds scholarly chapters on such topics as ancient Black Christians and "African Edenic Women and the Scriptures." It also features 25 original slave songs and 57 pages of photos and artwork in which all the biblical characters are black -- and never lose their dignity...
...made enemies traveling the state preaching that the consequences of irresponsible sex should not be a child who will more than likely grow up uncared for. She has not taken her lumps quietly. Elders attacks her religious-right critics as "non-Christians" who harbor "slave-master mentalities." Last year Elders told an abortion-rights rally that abortion foes need to get over their "love affair with the fetus." Earlier this month on a CNBC call-in show, Elders was asked what she planned to do about crack- addicted women who sell sex to buy drugs, get pregnant and have crack...
Relying on reports from 26 locations round the globe, our story tracks this new slave trade from Nepal's Himalayan villages to the mining towns of the Amazon and on to West European strip clubs. "This story demonstrates our global reach and knowledge," says senior editor Christopher Redman, who coordinated the report from his office in Brussels. "We got up close to a difficult subject most people don't want to talk about...
Readers often ask where we get our ideas. In this instance, it began with a report of a Belgium-based slave-trade ring and with news out of Eastern Europe that young women were bartering themselves as brides in exchange for a life in the more affluent West. While some of these marriages produced happy endings, contributor Frederick Painton was struck by the fact that the majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon. At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across moving photos...
...influence of the burgeoning sex trade. Eastern Europe, once prudishly communist, is pockmarked with streetwalkers and whorehouses. Poverty has forced many of its young people to prostitute themselves in the fleshpots of the West. In Nepal's Himalayan hill villages, some 7,000 adolescents are sold each year to slave traders for the sweat-drenched brothels of Bombay. In Brazil an estimated 25,000 girls have been forced into prostitution in remote Amazon mining camps. In Italy, Nigerian streetwalkers are flooding into Bologna, while in Belgium, the neon-bright windows of Antwerp's red-light district are filled with Ghanaians...