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...Mama San is right: there is no shortage of kids for sale. Across Asia, tens of thousands of children are peddled into slavery each year. Some toil with their families as bonded laborers on farms. Others are sold by their parents - or tricked by agents - into servitude as camel jockeys, fisher boys or beggars. In Burma, some are kidnapped by the state and forced to become soldiers. And, according to the International Labor Organization, at least 1 million children are prostitutes, with the greatest numbers in Thailand, India, Taiwan and the Philippines. It's a growing problem, fueled...
...norm for workers to have two full-time jobs or more if they wish to raise families. In light of these numbers, the only principle Harvard can honestly claim to be upholding is that of subsistence, a life of obstinate poverty in the face of nearly constant toil...
...guard was the last to toil in the pre-rehabbed hell of 14 Plympton St. Because we were the What?—and hence scoffed at by the newshound bosses—and because The Crimson was tight on space, the three of us were exiled to the most dismal sub-sub-basement, a cave at the bitter end of the cellar, past the presses and the half-tone machine. Our putrid little home glistened with slime-mold, reeked of ink, photo chemicals, and rot, and was cluttered with mysterious tin buckets sloshing with murky green chemicals. The stink...
...teen pop is that it must be relevant to the targeted generation of eight to 15-year old girls. A teen artist achieves relevance, often translated into coolness, with a combination of catchy, tuneful melodies, upbeat and appealing music videos and a distinct separation from the drudgery and toil of the real world teens inhabit. With Britney, Spears has failed in all three objectives. In seeking to redefine her appeal, she has seriously compromised her once-secure position as queen of the young...
...suppose this equates me with the likes of the piggish Dudley Dursley, but I am a Muggle and proud of it. Just wading through the pages of J.K. Rowling’s first volume was toil enough: Quidditch and Hogwarts and Gryffindor are words in another language that I have no interest in learning. (I’m already expecting hate-mail from everyone who worships Rowling or her fictitious characters, accusing me of being everything from a philistine to a cynic...