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...would like to talk about that very much disturbs me. I spend a fair amount of extracurricular time working alumni events and working with the Alumni Association in particular, and I get to spend time with some of the older alums, some of the very much whiter alums and wealthier alums. And because of what I look like they tend to speak freely around me because they don’t know really what I do or what I think or that I’ve been seen at Living Wage rallies and elsewhere. And so they talk...
...Whether in Taliban or Northern Alliance-held territory, an Afghan girl trades her veil for a burka at age 15. But in Northern Alliance country, girls from wealthier families can attend schools taught by female teachers. Still, mud walls throughout this nation are built high to keep women shielded from outside eyes. Women in Northern Alliance territory are allowed to be educated, but they are not to be seen. That, says one bearded man, is the way it has always been. Ever since biblical times. And Afghanistan seems in no hurry to leave that bygone...
...wealthier nations don't need to bother with such chicanery - they can simply rely on their power to restrict the agenda of the conference, and their participation in it. The Americans and some other Western nations may have focused their reservations on the Israel issue, but there's plenty else on the agenda that has them worried. In a perverse way, the anti-Zionist camp has given the U.S. a pretext for pulling Secretary of State Colin Powell from a conference that will also focus extensively on the legacy of slavery...
...cost factories in Eastern Europe allow Flextronics to deliver products to wealthier consumers in Western Europe weeks faster than do factories in Asia or Latin America. "About 70% of world electronics are sold in the Christmas season," says Roger Moore, executive director at the Flextronics industrial park in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. "If you've launched a new product in August, you really don't know whether it will take off until the season gets moving around the end of October. If you discover it's a real hit, and it is being shipped from China, it won't reach you until...
...wealthier nations like the U.S., pap smear tests to detect pre-cancerous lesions are commonly available, and incidences of the disease are very...