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...stays onside, the cease-fire continues. With a few nerve-rattling exceptions - in 1968 the North boarded and seized an American patrol boat, the U.S.S. Pueblo, that Washington insisted was in international waters , and in 1976, North Korea attacked and killed two American soldiers while they were trimming a tree in the DMZ - that cease-fire has held to this...
...influx of Chinese investment and strong clothing exports, but the country is still heavily dependent on agriculture-more than 80% of its 14 million citizens are farmers. Cambodia's population has doubled since 1975, and most of these extra mouths are in the countryside. In Phnom Penh, the tree-lined colonial avenues are being transformed by rapid construction that is uprooting fragrant frangipani trees in favor of glass-plated office buildings. The newfound wealth, though, hasn't extended much past city borders, and the disparity between rural residents and city folk is only growing. To make things worse, the poor...
Earl Deal's Smokey Holler Tree Farm in western North Carolina won the arboreal equivalent of American Idol in 2005 when one of its Fraser firs was chosen as the White House Christmas tree. Many of Deal's guest workers come back year after year. In turn, they are given decent housing and a legal way to earn a good wage. But when I visited them last year, many were jealous of the one worker at the farm who said he was in the U.S. illegally (like most other employers, Deal is simply unable to tell a good...
...worker program that would grant up to 200,000 two-year visas annually. North Carolina, which imports more legal farmworkers than any other state, offers an idea of how the guest-worker proposal might look in action. During the past growing season, I canvassed the state, from the Christmas-tree farms in the western mountains to the crab plants on the eastern shore, and found a guest-worker program that is orderly, rational, legal--and almost completely unworkable as it currently exists...
...influx of Chinese investment and strong clothing exports, but the country is still heavily dependent on agriculture - more than 80% of its 14 million citizens are farmers. Cambodia's population has doubled since 1975, and most of these extra mouths are in the countryside. In Phnom Penh, the tree-lined colonial avenues are being transformed by rapid construction that is uprooting fragrant frangipani trees in favor of glass-plated office buildings. The newfound wealth, though, hasn't extended much past city borders, and the disparity between rural residents and city folks is only growing wider...