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...critics like Barnett warn that ill-prepared or poorly directed volunteers can produce more harm than good. Voluntourists have gone to her complaining about groups that repeated projects already finished by earlier crews or did work considered at odds with the local people's desires. With new companies entering a sector that is still largely unregulated, tour operators sometimes take advantage of even the best-intentioned volunteers, Barnett explains. "It's a new form of colonialism, really," she says. "The market is geared toward profit rather than the needs of the communities." Tourism Concern is developing a code of ethical...
...hospital, the medics--five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor--faced execution until Libya commuted the sentence to life in exchange for a $460 million compensation to victims' families. When further talks to get them out of Libya stalled, Sarkozy sent his wife to meet with Gaddafi--and to warn that Sarkozy could not see the legitimacy-starved Gaddafi on Sarkozy's most recent trip to Africa if the prisoners were still detained. That diplomatic carrot, along with promises to normalize E.U.-Libyan relations, got the medics on France's Bulgaria-bound presidential jet--alongside Ccilia--some 36 hours...
...RIAA began actively policing peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in 2003. In just over four years, no one has yet tested the association’s claims in court, with everyone choosing instead to settle before going to trial. “Pre-litigation” letters warn illegal downloaders that they could be fined more than $750 per song if found guilty...
...Business leaders-the ones busy hiring Indian and Chinese college graduates-warn that judging by America's current education efforts, the nation is already falling behind. "The competitiveness of the U.S. workforce depends on a strong educational foundation, particularly in the math and science skills required to succeed in the information-technology industry," says Craig R. Barrett, chairman of Intel. "We need to raise our sights and not tolerate the mediocrity we already have." John Chen, the chairman and ceo of Sybase, a California software company (and a man whose parents fled Shanghai for Hong Kong after the communists took...
...mato oput. LRA leader Joseph Kony was indicted, along with three other commanders, by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...