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...taken with her from the U.S. She found jahwaan, traditional foot scrubbers, in the local market. "They looked really rough and strange, but when I started using one, it made my feet smoother and softer and did a wonderful job cleaning them," she says. As she prepared for a visit to her native Omaha, Neb., with her son, she asked herself, "Do I bring foot scrubbers for family and friends or pack the baby's clothes?" When she got eight orders for the tool, a business was born...
Deale stumbled into her business when she was on an overseas trip. A native of South Africa, she had owned a corporate-gift company there before immigrating to the U.S. with her husband in 1997. When she went back to visit, Deale saw beautifully detailed embroidery made by Zulu craftswomen. "I just knew people would want them here," she says. Although the women have "extraordinary natural talents in beading, weaving and stitching," she says, the Zulu artisans were either illiterate or barely educated. She discovered that many of their husbands had died of AIDS, which has ravaged the country. "Many...
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...instance, take class trips to the Anti-Japanese War Museum in Beijing to view grainy photos of war atrocities-women raped and disemboweled, corpses of children stacked like cordwood. As one 15-year-old girl in a blue and yellow school uniform, Ji Jilan, emerged from a recent visit to the gallery, she told a TIME correspondent: "After seeing this, I hate Japanese more than ever...
...animosity reaches the highest levels of government. The Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, recently created shockwaves by saying he would refuse to meet with Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, at a ground-breaking summit of East Asian nations that begins Monday. Reasons include rising Japanese nationalism and a recent visit by the Japanese Premier to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which commemorates Japan's war dead, including some war criminals from the time of Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s. But underneath that diplomatic spat over history is a struggle for power and influence in East Asia that...