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 ABC News Nightline Stolen Childhood $14.95 The prevalence of child labor in the world is the subject of a documentary film by Len Morris and Robin Romano called, "Stolen Childhoods." The filmmakers traveled to eight countries to document the stories of child laborers around the world: 12-year-old girls working in gravel quarries in India's 120-degree heat; 8- and 10-year-old boys who make $5 for three months of fishing the tides on the sea of Sumatra; children picking coffee beans in Kenya -- a country where as many as 4 million children are estimated to be working. Sound like the far-off realities of third-world countries? Maybe, but the United States was one of those eight countries that the filmmakers visited. And work is not such a distant reality for the estimated 300,000 to 800,000 children who toil on America's farms. Federal law offers less protection for those children than you might think. It all might make you think twice before you buy that cup of coffee. Anchor: Ted Koppel.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.  Nightlines: The First Alo Nudger Mystery (Alo Nudger Mysteries) $6.99 Aldo Nudger must be the least healthy private eye in the history of the crime novel-delicate of stomach ,frail of constitution etc.This does not diminish the enjoyment of the series however ,unless you insist on the type of hero who can down copious amounts of booze ,wolf down a burger while on stakeout and live a generally unhealthy lifetsyle without detriment to his overall physical wellbeing Here the St Louis based 'tec is hired by the wealthy Jeanette Boyington whose sister Jenine has recently been murdered.Jeanette believes the killer is still loose ,not a view endorsed by the local police,and she engages Nudger to look into the case .They come round to her and Nudger's way of thinking as other victims turn up ,killed in the same way as Jenine .The killer makes contact with his victims using the eponymous nightlines -they are used in the day as testlines but become chatlines in the nocturnal hours ,used by the lost and lonely to make contacts and set up meetings . Jeanette proposes uising herself as bait -posing as a potential date/victim while Nudger trails them .The investigation is further complicated by the hostility of Jeanette's mother ,the fierce matriarchalAgnes who tries to dissuade him from remaining on the case and is not averse to sending in a brutish thug named Hugo Rumbo to "persuade"him to do so .Add his emotional involvement with a damaged and suicidal woman Claudio ,who is trying to get her life back on track ,and aldo has got his hands full . The climax is tense and gripping as Jeanette spirals out of control and there is a blood drenched climax at her apartment as she confronts the suspected killer.There is a deft twist ending which I will not divulge . I regret the end of the series in recent years as Aldo is a fine creation and the series always displyed a great degree of warmth and compassion without descending into sentimentality. The book is tense and well plotted and recommended unreservedly to lovers of the crime novel in its "medium boiled" mode  Nightline $15.99 When I was in High School, this album took me to levels so high. This has got to be, her greatest work. From Nightline to Live it Up.....no one does it better than Randy |
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