Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I’m partly to blame. The evidence of my complicity sits idle on the landing, next to a tennis racquet. Asics shoes. My adored new pair, so light, makes it so easy to move around the tennis court. Just last night, I urged another player to try a pair. It’s unclear at this writing whether my particular make of Asics shoe was manufactured at the Cambodian plant where a ceiling collapsed and three workers died. But Asics were definitely manufactured at the Taiwanese-owned factory.
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