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Why does cheap labor produce expensive iPads?

  • iPad and cyber shopping
  • March 31, 2012
A recent visit to the late Andy Rooney’s home inspired this lead-in sentence: “Did you ever wonder why,” - if labor is so cheap...
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Domestic violence: Beyond the black-and-blue

There's this idea that domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, equates to a man physically harming a woman. Images of black eyes and...
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Wheel of power and control: Part two of three

Wheel of power and controlThe wheel of power and control illustrates how a batterer attempts to gain power or control of his or her victim with the...
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A tribute to fatal victims of dating and domestic violence

I got flowers today by Paulette KellyI got flowers today. It wasn't my birthday or any other special day.We had our first argument last night and...
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Dating violence: Are you a victim? Part five of five

Property abuse and economic abuseProperty and economic abuse takes place when the abuse attacks not the person, but their livelihood and their...
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Dating violence: Are you a victim? Part one of five

Photo Source: AP Photo/Matt Sayles,fileIn the wake of the musician Chris Brown's apology for the dating violence incident with former girlfriendand...
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