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...Guiyu. The cluster of villages in southern China's Guangdong province is a dumping ground for mountains of scrapped computers and high-tech appliances, the detritus of a digital revolution going on an ocean away. Blue Dongfeng trucks with heaving loads of broken hardware dominate the roads and kick dust into the faces of the bicycle-cart drivers, their own cargo of tangled wires swaying with each turn. Atop a riverbank junk heap near the Meizhou bridge, a piece of cardboard flutters in the breeze?printed on it are keystroke instructions and the words: "WordPerfect...
...work is menial, dangerous, and illegal. Often it results in the release of highly toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil. Along the waterways of Guiyu, computer monitors are smashed with hammers, exposing workers to toxic phosphor dust. Lead and barium from the crushed components seep into the riverbank. Toner cartridges are cracked open for their carbon-black dust. Used in industrial processing, the material "is a great seller," says one worker, "more than 10 per cartridge." But its effects when inhaled are unknown...
...days of the battle, some 500 bombs and missiles were dropped on the valley. Gunships raked al-Qaeda positions, killing hundreds. "You could hear the AC-130 bombers circling above in the clouds, then this slow thud, thud, thud," said Marine Captain Jeff Pool. "Then these great showers of dust would rise up from the valley floor." By the weekend, snow and freezing rain returned, and American commanders had to decide whether to risk more casualties by going after those fighters?maybe 200 of them?still in the caves...
Although his “interpretation” of the policy as it applies to sit-ins is redundant, there are some benefits to raising the issue again anyway, however obvious it ought to be. In the aftermath of the spring sit-in, with the statement gathering dust instead of being actively considered, it was anyone’s guess how participants in another such occupation would be penalized under a new president. College, law school and Kennedy School of Government students received different punishments this spring, with the latter set of students getting off the hook entirely...
...We’ve battled for first place for three of the last four years and hit the dust the last weekend, so to speak,” said Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. “To do it this early feels really good...