By Ann Hornaday

What will Johnny do?

That has been the question on filmgoers' minds since it was announced, just

after Johnny Depp's triumphant channeling of Keith Richards in "Pirates of

the Caribbean," that he would next play Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's "Charlie

and the Chocolate Factory." Would Depp channel Michael Jackson this time? Or

the role's 1971 originator, Gene Wilder? Or would he surprise the oddsmakers

with something completely, characteristically out there?

Cocoa plantations still employ kids

TODD PITTMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

OUME, Ivory Coast—The message has travelled down red earth roads to tropical forests where green, fist-size cocoa pods hang from lush trees: Stop child labour on cocoa plantations, or the world may stop buying your cocoa.

But four years after the chocolate industry, under pressure from U.S. lawmakers, agreed to create standards to stamp out the worst practices, many children still labour to help produce 70 per cent of the world's raw material for chocolate.

y JUAN FORERO

BOGOTÁ, Colombia, June 30 - As the White House lobbied Congress to win support for a Central American trade pact, the United States Labor Department tried for more than a year to block the release of reports that harshly criticized labor standards in the region.

The reports, by a labor advocacy group, the International Labor Rights Fund, were commissioned by the Labor Department, and concluded that working conditions in five Central American nations and the Dominican Republic were dismal, and that enforcement of labor laws was weak.

By Jonathan Cunningham



UNVEILING THE TRUTH BEHIND MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS

Many urban consumers are secretly proud that hip-hop fashion and apparel has become a multi-billion dollar industry sprawling across most continents. The trendy designs, which have morphed from the awkwardness of Coogi in the early 1990’s to the chic urban couture of Sean John and Akademiks, have become accepted as “business attire” nowadays within certain offices and professions.