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...glut of Chinese and Indian factories competing for Western clients, so if a factory doesn't pass audits, multinationals can just walk across the street. With the Chinese workweek capped at about 50 hours (including overtime), strict new labor laws and growing competition for workers, it's getting tougher to comply with the law, pay the minimum wage, make order deadlines - and earn a profit. Says Rosey Hurst, founder of Impactt, an ethical trade NGO based in London: "I have a large deal of sympathy for the fakers...
...performance based on the race of the patient. He's also experimenting with what he calls "cultural competency training": lessons designed to help doctors recognize when patients may not share the same assumed health conditions, or when patients may face constraints that make the standard dietary and exercise guidance tougher to follow. Sequist emphasizes that these lessons are not aiming to teach doctors "what a black patient thinks," but to get doctors to find out what their patients actually do think. Results of the trial won't be available until later this year. But, if it works, it could...
...Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican John Warner of Virginia, and taken to the floor by Democrat Barbara Boxer of California, the liberal chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the bill was never given much chance of passage. Its carbon-reduction targets were tougher than the business community wanted, but not as tough as many greens demanded. And it was complicated, even bloated - it would have raised $6.7 trillion over 40 years by auctioning global warming pollution permits, using great gobs of that money to buy off various interest groups. But it was significant just...
...soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq say they can't see a mental-health professional when they need to. When the number of troops in Iraq surged by 30,000 last year, the number of Army mental-health workers remained the same - about 200 - making counseling and care even tougher...
...year tenure. Harvard finished second behind Navy in the Petite Final.“This year, there are a lot of fast teams out there,” Medioli said. “I’m sure we’ve been racing against a tougher field than normal. In my experience, we work very, very hard all the time. I can’t look back on the season and say we should have done that differently.”Though Harvard was in the lead for almost the entire race, the second varsity eight placed second behind...