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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prepared to pay, and candidates then compete for the opening, until the cheapest bidder wins the job. Not surprisingly, local politicians and trade unionists have condemned the venture, which has chalked up 1,800 brokered deals, 10,000 registered users and thousands of hits a day, as "a slave market" and "grave threat" to the country's long-cherished social model. Its founder, Münster student Fabian Löw, 32, however, believes his website is long-overdue applied realism. "We start where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says Löw, who plans to go global in September. Wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Low Can You Go? | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

...wonder Judging by the number of billboards, Senegal's best-selling food product is stock cubes - but if you're persistent, you'll encounter plenty of zesty meals there without instant bouillon. And if you're a soul-food fan, you're in luck: by virtue of the slave trade, Senegalese cuisine was one of the key influences on African-American cooking. Senegal's Atlantic coastline ensures an abundance of seafood - grouper, monkfish and sea bream are common - while peanuts, millet and cassava are harvested from the central savanna area. Given Morocco's proximity, couscous is almost as widespread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dish On Dakar | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...debate—most people who care to listen would agree that slavery is wrong and should be discontinued. Yet frustratingly few people support our cause. Almost nobody in America realizes that 27 million human beings are still enslaved today, more than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade—and tens of thousands of them reside on American soil...

Author: By Loui Itoh, | Title: The Ills of Modern-Day Slavery | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

Genetic testing has a special attraction for African Americans because most have no other way to trace their lineage; the slave trade did a thorough job of severing their African roots. Washington-based African Ancestry aims to re-establish these links by telling its customers whether their DNA matches that of any of hundreds of ethnic groups in Africa, from the Hausa in northern Nigeria to the Ashantis in Ghana. For Juanita Thompson, a real estate agent in Arlington, Va., the test had special significance because her mother had been adopted as an infant and her birth family was unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can DNA Reveal Your Roots? | 7/5/2005 | See Source »

...Accepting the nomination to run for U.S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln declares: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." Lincoln loses the race but gains national attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Behind the Legend | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

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