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...storage space available." As well, cotton has been planted and in coming weeks, under a harsh sun, teams of casual workers, known as "chippers," will flock to the vast fields to remove weeds from the crop. Dahlstrom, like many other indigenous people, has relied on this work for extra pre-Christmas cash. He's traveled the country as a fruit picker, where his blue eyes and fair hair left him indistinguishable from the Scandinavian backpackers he befriended. Until recently, Dahlstrom worked on a cotton gin a few hours away near the Queensland border. The money was terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs For Our Mob | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...THERE SOMETHING EXTRA YOU BRING TO THE JOB AS A WOMAN? Sensitivity to human needs. Maybe that comes from being a mother and interacting with other women, many of whom carry the biggest burden in times of both war and peace. GENDER ASIDE, HOW WILL THE JOHNSON-SIRLEAF PRESIDENCY BE DIFFERENT? AFTER NEARLY 14 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR, UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT 80% AND MANY STILL LIVE IN REFUGEE CAMPS. I'm going to have a rigorous reform agenda in which we will introduce the structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...easy is it to connect the Xbox 360 to a Wi-Fi network? Out of the box, the Xbox cannot connect wirelessly to a network, but with a $100 Microsoft add-on, it's simple. Yes, $100 extra when you've just spent $300 or $400 on your console, but I have to hand it to Microsoft for making the experience a positive one. Many Wi-Fi devices can't deal with different formats of wireless security (WEP, WPA, etc.), but when I plugged in this accessory, the 360 saw my network and knew what to ask for to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Xbox 360 | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

...Sandel introducing the committee’s recommendation that students should be required to take three courses in each of three distribution areas—the Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, and the Study of Societies.In the report, the committee also proposed the creation of a number of extra-departmental and year-long courses “that would be synoptic and integrative in approach, and topically both wide-ranging and of considerable depth.”While several professors expressed approval of the committee’s recommendations, others argued that the three areas are too broad, omitting...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Discuss Gen Ed Report | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

...official U.S. and European economic statistics, out of 50 American states, France’s GDP per capita outperformed only Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia, and Mississippi in 2001. A recent Swedish report calculated that if the U.S. economy had been frozen in 2000, it would take France an extra 15 years of growth to catch up to the American standard...

Author: By Marcus Alexander | Title: The Children of the Republic | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

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