Word: third-world
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...sure how that makes you feel, but her words make me nauseous. For a moment, I’m not sure if I’m reading the words of Iris Burton or the roughly translated phrasing a child-labor-using sweatshop owner in a third-world country. But if you consider it carefully, there are more parallels between these types of labor than you would imagine.Child actors, like sweatshop workers, often lose the opportunity to attend a normal school and never experience important stages in character and personality development. Thrown into a world controlled by adults, both are often...
Inspired by Paul Farmer—a Harvard Medical School professor and co-founder of Partners in Health, a non-profit that brings medical care to third-world countries—Leiby said he is taking classes and researching with the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative for HIV Research and Education...
...Europe itself is not a big arms customer. The real hunger lies in oil-rich and third-world countries eager to modernize their armies. Unlike the 1980s, when France nurtured military ties with African governments - selling massive arms systems in return for political backing - France has few natural allies to whom to sell weapons. Two months ago Morocco - France's former colony and close neighbor - rejected the Rafale and instead bought Lockheed Martin's F-16 fighter jet, which has seen years of combat, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the French Air Force hasn't bought all the Rafale...
...time gallivanting around foreign countries and squirming as he tastes the weirdest stuff Food Network producers can find. In his new book, he appears to be doing more of the same while looking as fashionably ratty as ever. He sits on what one can presume to be a third-world stoop, wearing dingy travel slouch pants, a dirty Oxford shirt, and sandals, dangling a cigarette from his forefingers. Never in his wildest dreams could Emeril hope to look this appealing. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Most days, students ask these professors about criminal law, number theory, and third-world development...