Jackie Northam appears in the following:
Can This Dominican Factory Pay Good Wages And Make A Profit?
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Aracelis Upia Montero bounds through the front door of her wood and cinderblock house, calling out for her children. The bubbly 41-year-old Montero — whom everyone calls Kuki — proudly shows guests around her cramped single-story home in Villa Altagracia in the Dominican Republic.
Montero points out her new living ...
The Global Afterlife Of Your Donated Clothes
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
On a bright and warm Saturday morning, there's a steady flow of people dropping off donations at Martha's Table, a charity in downtown Washington, D.C. A mountain of plastic and paper bags stuffed with used dresses, scarves, skirts and footwear expands in one corner of the room. Volunteers sort and ...
Port Of Baltimore Seeks Boost From Panama Canal Expansion
Monday, May 06, 2013
There is constant motion around four new supersized, Chinese-made cranes as they unload cargo from a ship at the Port of Baltimore's freshly constructed Seagirt Marine Terminal.
Control cabs whir across the cranes' broad steel beams, and thick cables spin from giant wheels. Containers packed with consumer goods — TVs, ...
Britain's Iron Lady, Former Prime Minister Thatcher, Dies
Monday, April 08, 2013
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died Monday following a stroke. She was 87. Despite many accomplishments during her 11 years in office, she was a divisive figure, and there is still much bitterness surrounding the woman who was dubbed the Iron Lady.
Thatcher's long journey to becoming one ...
Google's Eric Schmidt Heads To Another Isolated Asian Nation
Friday, March 22, 2013
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, who went to North Korea in January, is making a short visit Friday to Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Why is the senior executive of a U.S. technology powerhouse visiting some of the poorest and least wired countries in Asia?
Schmidt will be the ...