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Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...Cartel The address is 17 Charterhouse Street. Ten times every year, near the open-air stalls of Smithfield Market in central London, about 80 of the diamond world's most powerful men meet here. Each client is led into a second-floor room. Coffee and tea are offered. An attendant comes back with what looks like a yellow-and-black plastic lunchbox. Inside are gem diamonds of all varying types and sizes. There are no negotiations over price, only an implied choice: Take it or leave it. These events are called "sights," and the host is De Beers Consolidated Mines...
...dogs herding 60 sheep through the city? London's changed just a bit since the [an error occurred while processing this directive] woolly ones regularly walked the streets to market, so to contrast old and new uses of London's roads, the animals will be driven between Borough and Smithfield markets via the ultramodern Millennium Bridge that spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first to be built in London in more than 100 years - bone up on the history of the river...
...would be a number of advantages: It would help develop the Czech Republic as well as its neighboring countries. And it would give the new European Union member nations from the east of Europe a greater feeling of belonging. Adriaan Jansen Llauro, France In his article on London's Smithfield Market, Peter Ackroyd was correct to write, "The greatness of London lies not in its buildings or in its 'sights,' but in these small patches of sacred territory ? where the living and the dead still walk together." But Ackroyd missed, as have many others, the very best example...
...overly bureaucratic public school system. We have chosen to home school in order to provide our children with a superior academic experience that is provided in a morally protected atmosphere. As Mark Twain said, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." HENRY AND SONNYA VARENHORST Smithfield...