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The United States faces a shortage of high school STEM teachers. Of all the shortages, the greatest is in computer science. The extent of the shortage is difficult to document, because for the purposes of many state an... Read more

The United States faces a shortage of high school STEM teachers. Of all the shortages, the greatest is in computer science. The extent of the shortage is difficult to document, because for the purposes of many state an... Read more

Park Min-sook at home with her daughter Ju-hyun in Danyang, South Korea. Park, 44, worked at a Samsung semiconductor factory for seven years. She later suffered from breast cancer, infertility, and a miscarriage.

Rejected wafers from Samsung. Park Min-sook brought these home in the 1990s. “I don’t even want to touch them,” she says.

Kim Shinyeo helps her daughter Han Hye-kyung out of the car at a rehabilitation center. Han, 39, worked in a Samsung LCD factory; she has a brain tumor that impairs her speech, vision, and mobility.