"They called it 'banana oil.' Long Li didn't ask what was in it. All she knew was that she was supposed to use it to clean cell phone screens, hundreds of them every hour. Fumes filled the air in the windowless room where she worked, in a three-story factory outside the southeastern China city of Dongguan."
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/inside-chinese-factories/
"One of the individuals that White follows in her upcoming film did commit suicide in January 2014 after receiving a terminal diagnosis. And this problem isn’t just isolated at Apple facilities, either.
'While I was [in China,] I actually heard many cases in other factories where workers were committing suicide,” she says. “I think it’s a fairly widespread problem, either from the pressure or from finding out that they have a terminal diagnosis of something like Leukemia.'”
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/produce-apple-products-chinese-factor-workers-pay-steep-price/
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It’s hard not to look
at the nets. Every building is skirted in them. They drape every
precipice, steel poles jutting out 20 feet above the sidewalk, loosely
tangled like volleyball nets in winter.
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"The
women never suggested a boycott, though, and a lack of consequences
with teeth surely did not help their effort. FIFA and tournament
organizers merely ran out the clock, and in the end everyone just agreed
to get on with it.
But
on Sunday the players stood their ground. And U.S. Soccer not only
listened to their concerns but made clear it was doing something to
address them.
None of the women’s international games set to be hosted by U.S. Soccer
in 2016 will be played on artificial turf, said Neil Buethe, a
spokesman for the federation. That includes a four-team tournament the
Americans will host early next year in place of their regular trip to
the Algarve Cup in Portugal, and any matches before the Olympics, where
FIFA has again insisted on natural grass — because the men will be
playing in the same stadiums as the women."
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