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...goes boom! But after a while, as the facetious film references (to everything from E.T. to The Seventh Seal pile up, Hero turns into the industry's all-time costliest inside joke. Watching it is as enervating as being on a real movie set. You see all of the sweat and none of the starlight...
...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 in lacy underwear. Around Miami...
That, perhaps, explains the desperation of the Chinese illegals who sweat it out in restaurants, garment factories and dry-cleaning establishments for as little as $2 an hour. "The pay is incredibly low and the hours are incredibly long," says JoAnn Lum, program director for the Chinese Staff & Workers' Association in New York City. She tells of one garment-district employee who worked 36 hours straight, then was docked for taking a one-hour nap. Nonpayment of wages is also rampant. According to Lum, one group of 35 workers is owed $120,000 in back pay by their employers. "They...
...there were no fatalities and 103 rescues last year, and one fatality and 56 rescues in 1991. Rescues there were far more expensive, at $1,135,000 for '92 and $1,284,000 for '91. Park Service expense accounts aside, as any climber knows, most of the risk and sweat of mountain rescues in the U.S. is borne by amateur volunteers. To a considerable extent, climbers look out for themselves...
...personal reasons, I'd like to see someone like a Hispanic female with a family," says one senior police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Because we have sexism in the department, among other things, and I'd like to see some of these guys sweat...