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...revenue could go a long way. What's more, the old top-down method of letting the government distribute the funds was done away with. Instead, conservation groups would ask the villagers what they wanted, deliver it themselves and make conservation a condition of that delivery. BCI's ultimate aim is the creation of a Bonobo Peace Forest, a series of linked preserves covering a great swath of central Congo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Refuge for Hippie Apes | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...bitter, overroasted and "burnt." The criticisms are partly valid (the result of roasting beans black and leaving pots to sit around until they reduce to a 10W40-like sauce), partly not (the result of customers being wusses who don't like dark-roasted coffee). Pike Place aims to fix this through technique (Pike Place is not supposed to sit for more than 30 minutes) and blending (it aims for a lighter, brighter mix of beans). The aim is a cup that's more broadly friendly, less overwhelming, more (though they would probably never say this) like Dunkin Donuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks' New Brew: A First Taste | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...economic conservatives. The post-communist left has now failed to win in two successive votes. Yet Tusk, 50, is keenly aware of the challenges ahead. His party has no experience in power, and he has been criticized by the opposition for being a "media star" without substance. "If the aim of government is not to disturb much, then he is a good PM," jokes Jaroslaw Flis, a political commentator at Krakow's Jagiellonian University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Poland | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...Ratia was determined to set about turning the scarcity of fine fabrics, caused by postwar rationing, into an advantage by hiring designers to create inexpensive screen-printed cottons emboldened with color and exuberant pattern. That May, Ratia staged a fashion show at Helsinki's smartest restaurant, Kalastajatorppa, with the aim of showing women what they could do with the company's dazzling new fabrics by the yard. When women also clamored for the ready-made pieces they'd just seen, a fashion phenomenon, as well as a fabric house, was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxury Source | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...Gchat Nothing satisfies a Harvard person more than the “ping” of a Gchat message. It’s like AIM, but for smart people...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Things Harvard People Like | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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