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		<title>1-800-INDIA: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Offshore outsourcing -- firms subcontracting important parts of their businesses to firms in other countries -- are changing the nature of global business.
In India, outsourcing has sparked an economic boom, and those working in the industry are making new lives that balance traditional Indian family values with Western-style social and economic mores. But in India, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2009, Waterford Crystal went bankrupt. The company’s main factory, in Waterford, Ireland, was closed, and 480 people were fired. Many of them had worked there for more than forty years. But the Waterford workers refused to give up their jobs without a fight. They staged a sit-in that lasted for almost two months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Slideshow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click on the pictures below to learn more about some of the veteran Waterford Crystal workers, retirees and their family members who carried out a sit-in at the Waterford Crystal Visitor Center after the factory was shut down. The workers occupied the visitor center around the clock for almost two months in order to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Interview with Veteran GM Worker Brian Larkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's loss of an iconic brand of muscle car parallels Ireland's loss of Waterford Crystal in Raise the Last Glass. General Motors originally manufactured Pontiac Firebirds, GTOs and Trans Ams in Pontiac, Michigan.  The cars were driven by Burt Reynolds in the movie Smokey and the Bandit and were almost characters unto themselves in TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise the Last Glass: Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA World Factbook: Ireland
Information on Ireland's geography, people, military, and economy

BBC Country Profile: Ireland
Information about Ireland's history, leadership, and media, with links to BBC stories on the country

The Economist Country Briefings: Ireland
Articles, data, and forecasts on the Irish economy from The Economist

The Economic and Social Research Institute
Research that informs policymaking on economics and social change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Women Aim to End to the Age of Testosterone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland will be holding elections this Saturday, and women are poised to take charge.

Eager to bring an end to the "age of testosterone" that some Icelanders blame for their country's current financial woes, 60-70 percent of the population is expected to vote for interim Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardóttir, giving her a mandate to lead the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzwords: G-20</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Photo Credit: www.kremlin.ru




Buzzwords appears each Friday on the Wide Angle blog and breaks down the lingo, jargon and hot topics of the world’s headlines.

Erin Chapman

As the Obamas delivered newfangled gifts to Queen Elizabeth, the G-20 finance ministers and heads of state were sharpening their claws in preparation for a spending vs. regulation cat fight. Quoth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Tsvangirai&#8217;s Wife Killed in Car Crash; U.S.-Syria Talks to Begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asian markets tumble a day after Wall Street's drop to a 12-year low.

NATO revives full diplomatic relations with Russia, which were cut off in August 2008 on account of Russia's war with Georgia.

The wife of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is killed in a car accident; the prime minister himself suffers slight injuries.

Mauritania expels its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Times, Hate Crimes in Hungary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At dawn today in a village outside Budapest, an arson attack against a Roma home ended with a father and his 5-year-old son shot dead as they tried to escape their burning house. The incident resembles a series of firebombings of Roma houses across the country which have killed several people in recent months.

Racial tensions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Bombing in Cairo; Celebrations in Mubai</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guantanamo detainee who says he was tortured while in U.S. custody returns home to the U.K.

Three Egyptians are arrested after a bombing in a busy Cairo market injures nearly 20 people and kills at least one, a French tourist.

Two aid workers are killed in Darfur as tensions mount in anticipation of a decision from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Blessings: Ireland&#8217;s Bleak Economic Prospects</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/mixed-blessings/irelands-bleak-economic-prospects/4064/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucy kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Kennedy

Dell's announcement today that it will relocate its manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland to Lodz, Poland is a severe blow to the Irish economy, which has been hit hard and fast by the global economic crisis. Dell is Ireland’s second-largest corporate employer and the country’s largest exporter. Nineteen hundred shift workers will lose their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Crisis in a Globalized World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Our world today is so interconnected that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. has led to a global financial crisis on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. Here's a round-up of how the countries around the world are dealing with the economic meltdown.

Europe

The 15-country eurozone is officially in recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Deems Education a Fundamental Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Neeraj and her mother Devki from Wide Angle's Back to School



“What’s so great about being educated,” asks Devki, a mother from Rajasthan, India whose daughter Neeraj appears in Wide Angle’s film Time For School. “Even if you study, these educated people have nothing to do….We educated our sons and what good has it done?”

While there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/for-educators/lesson-plans/5668/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WIDE ANGLE's documentaries are valuable resources for teachers and students. These lesson plans and activities for middle and high school classes serve as a guide to exploring the themes of the films. Most WIDE ANGLE episodes may be purchased for educational and non-theatric use from Films Media Group.

LESSON PLANS:

Accountability for Human Rights Violations

This lesson plan [...]]]></description>
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