Month February 2009

Ex-prison ship houses foreign workers in Britain

Financial Times photo of the former prison ship, now housing Italian workers in Britain Desperate foreign workers are living in virtual incarceration on an ex-prison ship docked in Britain. They have to be vanned to work to avoid being beaten…

Some items for the “no, really?” category

Biotechnology companies are keeping university scientists from fully researching the effectiveness and environmental impact of the industry’s genetically modified crops, according to an unusual complaint issued by a group of those scientists. All the while, [Stanford] cultivated a comfortable relationship…