Issue: March 22, 2007 (Archive)

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We're just sealers, not savages
Mark Small is fed up with being portrayed as a bloodthirsty killer for his part in an annual cull in which about 300,000 young seals are shot or clubbed to death on ice floes off Canada's east coast.

Indian biotech queen targets leadership on the global stage
When Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founded Biocon India in 1978 with 10,000 rupees (HK$1,782) and an office in a rented car garage, no banker was willing to give her a loan.

TV calls scandal raises question of addictive shows
Calling television quiz shows in the hope of winning big money cost Julie Ellison nearly 4,000 (HK$61,000) in phone bills over 18 months and she never won a penny, but still she keeps on trying.

Scheming lenders hit minorities
Barbara Anderson and her husband know racism. Among the first black people to move into an Ohio neighborhood 25 years ago, she watched in horror as white neighbors burned her garage nearly to the ground.

Desperate LA landlords turn to the `Henry Ford of evictions'
Dennis Block seemed glued to his black leather chair, his coffee untouched, apparently impervious to physical needs such as the bathroom or food, taking one landlord's phone call after another. Almost all the callers wanted the same thing: to evict their tenants.

EU mulls `blue card' scheme to fill key jobs
Inspired by the famous American "green card" scheme, the European Commission is considering introducing its own "blue card" system to attract more qualified immigrants.

From laundering money to hunting down crooks
Seven years removed from a scandal that tarnished one of America's oldest financial institutions, the diminutive soft-spoken woman who helped launder US$7 billion (HK$54.6 billion) for Russian mobsters and businessmen is hoping to stop people like herself.

Hired hands come under the gun
A dozen civilians - a generally graying and balding bunch - were sitting in a classroom, listening intently to a wiry marine in combat boots tell them how to survive on the streets of Afghanistan or Iraq. Violence will happen, no matter what, they are told. Their job is to be prepared.

Students put scent of peppermint to the test
Since school began in August, US educators at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, have tried several strategies to boost scores on statewide tests.

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