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...married to someone who has been handed a pink slip during this recession. Compare that to the approximately 1.4 million women who have lost a job, and it appears that the majority of women may be experiencing our Great Recession's mass job losses not as a laid-off worker but as the spouse of one. And while a lot of attention has been paid to those who have lost their job - some 75% of whom have been men - the impact of these losses on spouses has been largely ignored...
...couple weeks ago, during an interview with Majoor—the founder of the Prostitution Information Center in Amsterdam’s Red Light District—the former sex worker told me that the one reason she decided to become a full-time prostitute was simply because she wanted a dog, a constant source of companionship on the streets, and could not otherwise afford one. But that reason seemed to belie her insistence that the decision to begin a career in prostitution was one she made “as an adult...
...Sunday's Urumqi riot was triggered by unrest in the southern coastal province of Guangdong, where a disgruntled former factory worker started a rumor that a group of Uighur workers had raped two Han women. That touched off a riot on June 26 that left two Uighur workers dead. Police later arrested the man who had started the rumor. This week's protest began as a peaceful demonstration by a group of about 1,000 Uighurs angered by the Guangdong riot. Witnesses said they shouted slogans in Uighur and Mandarin denouncing discrimination. (See TIME's China covers...
...typical line worker at a GM plant in Ramos Arizpe or Silao earns $2.80 per hour, a mere 10% of the $28 per hour (not including benefits) earned by his counterpart in Grand Rapids, Mich., or Oshawa, Ont. Add in GM's crushing legacy costs - pension and health-care obligations to retirees - which are only a minor consideration in Mexico, and it explains why the country is a cash...
...Deira (aldeira.ps) is a splendid, breezy hotel on the Mediterranean that can be reached only if you are an aid worker or a journalist - or you are someone who chooses to enter the Gaza Strip by a smugglers' tunnel from Egypt. I don't recommend the tunnel route; these snake holes deep in the sand tend to cave in and are frequently bombed by Israeli fighter jets. (See the best new travel products, gadgets and trends...