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...tens of thousands of students who depend on AmeriCorps’ average $4,724 grant to pay for college, it can mean the difference between an interesting, rewarding career and a dead-end, minimum-wage job. By putting those students to work on important service projects, AmeriCorps funding also helps build strong, happy communities—and it has bipartisan support across the country. A program like AmeriCorps cries out to be dramatically expanded to help young people build skills while at the same time serving their country in a positive and peaceful way. But President Bush?...
...growing force in civil society. They work at the grass-roots on such causes as curbing AIDS in Africa, saving rainforests in Brazil, building literacy in Central America and tutoring American youth in high schools or juvenile halls. Harvard students have led the way towards living wage and anti-sweatshop standards. Though not political in a narrow sense, their work impacts the climate of politics and often leads to government action. It would be in the interest of Harvard students and the IOP to support participant observation in many of these advocacy groups, which are often on the cutting edge...
...Although India's great advantage in the global marketplace is its large pool of low-wage, educated, English-speaking university graduates, the nation's creaky infrastructure reduces its competitive edge by raising costs for entrepreneurs. Vikram Talwar, who heads ExlService, a Delhi-based outsourcing company that handles calls and processes forms for American credit-card and insurance companies, says his telecom costs are three times higher than they would be in a country like Thailand. India's backward public-transportation system means he has to hire cars to take his employees home at night, which adds another...
...justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job last week to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66˘ an hour instead of the 34˘ they received. Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems...
...veils of secrecy are being stripped away. Recent interrogation and intelligence reports obtained by TIME make it clear that one of JI's best-kept secrets is the ambitious scale of its training camps in Mindanao, which has replaced Afghanistan as the preferred location for learning how to wage terror. Even more alarming: more than a year after Bali, both the camps and the supply routes for recruits appear to be functioning normally...