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  • So far, people have been less upset by the revelations Carrie Fisher has made about her life challenges during filming -- I saw and loved "Wishful Drinking," her one-woman show -- than by the other revisions to the Multi-Generational Modern-Day Myth that is Star Wars.

    Princess Leia's cocaine use? Not the worst blow to Star Wars fans. Alexandra Petri 2010

  • In 2005, Nathan, then the manager of a Port-au-Prince orphanage, told me his remarkable story of child domestic slavery and escape for my book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery.

    Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Modern-Day Slavery: A Necessary Beat With Different Challenges Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2010

  • A few weeks before the Trader Joe's rally, Karen and I met before work (to shoot the video below) at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village, where the CIW's mobile Modern-Day Slavery Museum had set up shop for the day to educate passers-by about six of the seven cases of slavery prosecuted on behalf of farmworkers in recent years.

    Leslie Hatfield: This Labor Day, Will Trader Joe's Agree to Fair Food? 2010

  • And, thus, was born the concept for my new book, Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit -- a collection of 25 true stories emanating from the world's most popular social networking site.

    Emily Liebert: Facebook Fairytales Come True 2010

  • Most Americans, particularly those with no ties to agriculture, have no clue that such abuses still happen, let alone that they may be complicit in such exploitation through their purchases, which is why the Modern-Day Slavery Museum is such a powerful vehicle.

    Leslie Hatfield: This Labor Day, Will Trader Joe's Agree to Fair Food? 2010

  • And, thus, was born the concept for my new book, Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit -- a collection of 25 true stories emanating from the world's most popular social networking site.

    Facebook Fairytales Come True Emily Liebert 2010

  • It closed on February 4, 1980, with a party called “The End of Modern-Day Gomorrah.”

    Follow the Model J. Alexander 2009

  • Change of Heart Chinese tourists help convert Taiwan deities Modern-Day Hansels and Gretels Germany's "forest kindergartens"

    Interactive Features Archive 2008 2009

  • It closed on February 4, 1980, with a party called “The End of Modern-Day Gomorrah.”

    Follow the Model J. Alexander 2009

  • Regarding congresswoman Slaughter's post, "Why We Need a Modern-Day Truman Commission," or whatever it's called ....

    Richard Bradley: No ghostwriters please 2008

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