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...more serious question—and the more difficult one—is whether trade in grime should be considered a prohibited exchange. We could let people choose to be prostitutes, or to work in environments that lack basic health or safety standards, but society has decided that these issues are simply too important to be left to employers and labor to negotiate—that discrepancies in economic power shouldn’t be allowed to push people into such exchanges. Does the grime trade fall in that category...
...some cases, it requires that researchers make some basic value judgments about what risks, to which people, are less serious than other risks. Such judgments, say critics of Graham and his center, are where the bias toward corporations arises and why they cast doubt on the scientific validity of his work...
...corporate and promotional watch business afloat in face of fierce Asian competition. "We had to offer something new, different and attractive," he says. "So we put the components on the Internet and let the customers design their own watches." To make your own watch, choose from among 15 basic models and then customize it with one of 14 movements. The same selection process continues for the case, dial and other components, all the way to the choice of packaging. A click on the "submit" button sends the order and the watch is assembled. Prices range from...
...nontraditional healers on these pages have gone further. They have created new pathways to health while remaining true to the most basic creed of the medical canon: First, do no harm...
...Yoga comes in almost as many guises as there are yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that...