Picture a chocolate factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Most of its workers are being supplied by agencies. One of them is Talent Tree, a Texas-based manpower agency that is successful in deploying workers to a lot of factories and assembly plants in Michigan. Applicants come from across boundaries: Latinos, Asians, and of course, Americans […]
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East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]
Memorial Day Has Personal Meanings
My grandfather and my great uncle both served in World War II. A folded flag sits on my cousin’s bookshelf in rememberance of my great uncle. The flag of my grandfather, dead nearly 25 years, is in the posession of my aunt. It is fortunate that the real meaning of their acts are not measured […]
Produce a baby, not a dog
"Produce a baby, instead of raising a dog." This was the call of psychologist Frieda Birnbaum, a 60-year-old American mom who gave birth Tuesday to a twin sons through a Cesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center. While most of the older folk prefer to raise dogs or adopt children, the mother of three just […]
Illegal aliens must learn to read, write and speak English
Kudos to the concerned members of the U.S. Senate who took the courage to consider immigration policies that would eventually encourage millions of illegal immigrants to come out from darkness and expose themselves to join the normal mainstream of American society. But some U.S. legislators are still remorseful at the way things turned out […]
America’s forests declining due to growing pressures
The United States forest landscape is changing fast, mainly due to upcoming trends that are difficult to resist. And the three major trends that are expected to affect forest resources include: A changing forest land base, rising non-commodity uses and environmental health change. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service noted that the ability […]