Firefly will forever be considered something of a laff riot since the casting of Groucho Marx as the tiny country's leader. But the film accurately preserves that moment when the blood lust seeps into the veins of a nation ready to launch an attack on enemies real or imagined. Hispanic Workers Health Needs are Overwhelming Southern Poultry Towns Text and photos by Paul Cuadros Everyone's time is set to four thirty in the afternoon in Siler City, North Carolina. It's the hour when everyone comes home. Children come home from school and toss their backpacks on the floor.
Parents come home from the chicken plants and leave their black boots on the doorstep.
And Maria comes home and picks up her nine-month old daughter from the babysitter next door. An unexpectedly large number of new businesses in Poland today are owned by women. Many are doing quite well, in manufacturing as well as in the service sector, helping propel Poland on its fast-track path toward a competitive market economy. For a dozen days a year, Tlacuitapa, a depressed Mexican village so small and isolated that it doesn't appear on any official map of Mexico, comes to life.