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...Fresh Wounds The current financial catastrophe has a special emotional impact on this nation of 49 million people. South Koreans remain scarred by the previous crisis in 1997, with memories of the bankruptcies, unemployment and uncertainty about the future still fresh and painful. In a country where economic success has become an integral part of national identity, the IMF bailout was seen as an embarrassment. Today's financial chaos seems like a return to those tumultuous days. South Korea has been among the Asian countries hardest hit by the global meltdown; its currency, the won, has fallen to levels...
...crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state labor contracts that send workers abroad and openly encourages private-sector recruitment for overseas jobs. Evidence of its success, in the form of advertisements for English courses, technical schools and recruitment centers, is plastered across buildings and telephone poles throughout Manila. "It's a global phenomenon; we have to accept it," says Vivian Tornea, a director at the Department of Labor and Employment's Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration (OWWA...
...Former National president Slater is unsurprised by his protégé's impatience or his success. "I could see from our first meeting that he was headed for big things," he says. "He's got a very frank and friendly manner. He has no pretensions. When you consider his path in life, he's a guy who can relate to anybody...
...Taste of Success The flavored-milk straws hit Australian shelves in late 2005 and are now sold in 69 countries; Russia and China will soon join the list. Baron is also looking at flavor straws for water and fruit juice. Ingredients have been trialed that make soda water taste like Coca-Cola, and an Indian company called recently to ask if it was possible to add spicy masala flavor to the beads for mixing with orange juice. "It tasted great," Baron says of the sample batch...
...school's success is owed in large part to its competency-based approach. Instead of requiring that students take specific courses or amass a certain number of credit hours--as most colleges do--WGU asks only that students demonstrate mastery of the subject matter via online exams or papers that could take a day or a decade, depending on the student...