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Third World Sweatshops NPR's Madeleine Brand reports that third world sweatshops may have a new customer, the US military. Human rights activists are outraged over working conditions at a Taiwanese-owned factory in Nicaragua, which makes blue-jeans for the military's Exchange Service.

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NPR's Madeleine Brand reports that third world sweatshops may have a new customer, the US military. Human rights activists are outraged over working conditions at a Taiwanese-owned factory in Nicaragua, which makes blue-jeans for the military's Exchange Service.