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What really fuels Mozambique's climb, though, is the energy of individuals tackling problems from the bottom up. Take the "Italian roads." Instead of paying foreign companies for expensive foreign-built, high-maintenance asphalt roads, local authorities are copying a cheap labor-intensive, low-tech alternative pioneered in Italy: roads constructed of small, handmade stone or concrete pavers that can be laid directly on the sandy soil and individually replaced when rains wash them...
...lighted and ventilated, and paying decent wages by local standards--although by no means are they trouble free. Make no mistake: these are factories, not amusement parks, and even in developing Asia, where jobs are scarce and getting scarcer, this is not the employment of choice. It's low-tech assembly work that hasn't changed much since Nike chairman Phil Knight first started sourcing sneakers in Japan 35 years ago. Since then, the work has migrated in search of ever cheaper labor...
LUBBOCK, Texas--Ruth Riley scored all 23 of her points in the second half last night to lead Notre Dame to an 74-59 upset of top-seeded Texas Tech in the second round of the NCAA tournament Midwest Regional...
Duehay says he thinks of Cambridge as "a taleof two cities." The universities and the growinghigh-tech industry have brought prosperity to somecity residents, but vanishing factory jobs haveleft others scrambling to find work...
...growing high-tech industry in Cambridge hasbrought prosperity to many, he says, but he sayshe worries that employees of the soap, candy andsteel factories of the Cambridge of 30 years agohave been forced...