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...Atrocity of Human Trafficking As a former prostitute, I found E. Benjamin Skinner's descriptions of the young trafficked girls in South Africa excruciatingly painful [Jan. 18]. I felt their rapes in my memory. Skinner writes about the difficulty of healing after emancipation. But the depth of harm done to these young girls is beyond suffering, and I'm not sure there ever is "emancipation." After they are rescued, what life is there for these girls? Can they ever really recover? Suki Falconberg, SAN FRANCISCO...
...built). The next section describes Hessler's experiences living in a north China village that is transformed by the construction of a new road that links it to Beijing. The book concludes with a look at the economic dynamics of "instant cities" that keep springing up along a highway south of the Yangtze River. (Read "China Takes on the World...
ANDRE BAUER, lieutenant governor of South Carolina and Republican gubernatorial candidate, criticizing policies that extend welfare benefits to the poor...
...Southwest, the construction site is what the factory floor is to the MidWest - the place where blue-collar men and women earn their keep. A tour of downtown Los Angeles and the industrial warehouse area to the south finds busy jobs sites few and far between. In Vernon, Oltmans Construction Co., ranked as one of the nation's elite "Top 400 Contractors" by Engineering News Record, is completing a gleaming white 60,000 square foot warehouse and office space for CR Lawrence whose business is construction, industrial, architectural and automotive supplies. Ed Sorbel, superintendent for Carpenter's Local 630, says...
...with Osama bin Laden, North Africa's al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) militant group has worked hard to align its terror activities and communications with those of its radical parent organization. Topping the list of the techniques AQIM has borrowed from its brothers in the Middle East and South Asia is kidnapping Westerners to net big-money ransoms - or carefully choreographing their executions to shock the world. As the fates of several hostages hang in the balance in Mali and Mauritania, Western governments are grappling with how to deal with the growing problem: should they pony up hefty ransoms...