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Feb.08.2013 What You May Not Know About Apple's "Suicide Factories" So I'm looking up more information related to the short story I'm working on and I come across this interesting fact. It's something you'd expect any journalist writing about the infamous "suicide factories" in China where Apple's iPads and iPhones are made to mention, but surprisingly most...	Apr.22.2012 WHEN DID IMMIGRANTS BECOME THE ENEMY? When Did Immigrants Become the Enemy? New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 20, 2012 Photo of Condoleeza Rice urging passage of immigration reform earlier this month provided coutesy of Duke University. SAN FRANCISCO—Recently, in front a packed crowd at Duke...
Feb.22.2012 Human Trafficking is a Growing Global Scourge On the 900-mile trek of mostly desert that stretches between Eritrea and Egypt, hunting for humans has become routine. Eritrean refugees who have fled their homeland fall prey to Bedouin or Egyptian traffickers. The refugees are held for ransom. Those with relatives abroad who can pay for their...	Jan.28.2011 Harvard Terrorism A tony university will naturally have its eyes on the swish. Yet, there is something unnerving about a case study at Harvard Business School on the role of the employees at the five-star Taj Hotel during the Mumbai attacks of November 26, 2008. The multimedia case study ‘Terror at Taj Bombay...
Jan.11.2011 An Assemblage I looked at my salad and saw dirt-stained hands planting, tending, picking, sorting and selling lettuce and herbs. Dirt scuffed under heavy boots, along long dark rows of disked soil. The air was pungent with bruised plants and dampness. I heard low murmured voices talking about the weather,...	Nov.16.2009 How To Start A Sleazy Plumbing Company Looking for an unusual business opportunity? I've posted another chapter from my work-in-progress, "Kitchen Sink Confidential." 4,000 years of plumbing, from the qanats to you anxiously awaiting the arrival of your plumber as water drips through the ceiling. I pull back a few curtains,...
Aug.29.2009 “ASTRONAUT GOES FROM MIGRANT FIELDS TO OUTER SPACE” "ASTRONAUT GOES FROM MIGRANT FIELDS TO OUTER SPACE" For José M. Hernández The boy squatting with a wood and wire crate In Salinas has finally risen Above his station, California almost Beautiful from this distance. Now when he bends To the heavy glass he’s...	Mar.19.2009 The Invisible People I was taking the 511 bus from downtown Bangkok today. I got a seat , a window seat. I like the window seat because I get to people watch as the bus snakes off the expressway and makes it way up Sukhimvit road. The added benefit lays in the fact that if I am sitting down I don’t have to worry about...
Mar.18.2009 Peter Manseau's novel "Songs of the Butcher's Daughter" Peter Manseau like the narrator of his 2008 novel Songs of the Butcher's Daughter is an unbelieving Catholic who worked in a Jewish Cultural Organization which saved Yiddish books, getting most of them from elderly immigrant Jews. Manseau like his narrator learned Yiddish. Then Manseau wrote a...