Free-trade advocates argue that those factory jobs, as tough as they may be, are often a better alternative to the lives many face in small, rural villages in other parts of their countries.

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And doing this, of course, would divert large amounts of through traffic to other roads in the area, many of them small roads passing through villages.

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Indeed, many of the teams developing these products now resemble small villages of game-addicted worker bees.

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One huge problem was that many small settlements in the region were missing from vaccinators' hand-drawn maps and lists documenting the locations of villages and numbers of children.

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