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...They normally make us work underground," said Nathans, also a librarian...
...passersby used to the solitary products of the nation's one-child policy. Each Sunday, the Morrisons traveled to the Wuchang Protestant Church and joined dozens of Chinese to listen to the word of God as sanctioned by the Chinese state. While other Christians spread their message through illicit underground church meetings held in basements and anterooms, the Morrisons preferred to attend one of the seven officially registered churches available to Wuhan's 7 million citizens. "We want to work within the boundaries of Chinese law," says Valori. "We know we must honor authority...
...issue generates more emotion, and few others seem as confounding to solve. Take a stand on either side of the debate, and you're bound to get burned. Vowing to act tough on illegal immigrants and false asylum seekers plays well in the heartland; but crackdowns merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn...
...Because of the secretiveness of the business, experts say it is hard to estimate the trade's size. "Income from the underground traffic in arms is lower than that generated by other sources, in particular gambling and narcotics," says Yeshua Moser Puangsuwan, regional director for the Geneva-based Nonviolence International. But those two highly profitable illegal activities - which earn billions of dollars annually worldwide - are so entwined with arms smuggling they cannot be separated. "If you trade in narcotics, human beings or contraband, you must have access to arms," says Puangsuwan. "It ties them all together...
...Jenkins' course focuses on the artistic and protest underground cinema movements of the '50's and '60's and continues right up to modern Indy film leaders like Spike...