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...Zuoyun, where Old Zhao recovered the bodies of dead miners, sums up everything that is wrong with China's mining sector. Media reports in the wake of the disaster put production from the mine, licensed to produce only 90,000 tons a year, at roughly four times that amount. And according to accounts in China's state-owned media, which gave the accident widespread coverage--another sign of Beijing's concern--the mine operators broke numerous other safety regulations, including the number of miners allowed in the mine and the depth at which they worked. But the principal operator...
...says, "organic was the cool thing," and the company's chefs were buying organic whenever they could--even if that meant flying in Chilean nectarines. Dickman worked with the team to write new standards that place local before organic for all Google eateries. "You're using X amount of jet fuel to get it here, and that doesn't make sense," he says. "So forget the nectarines. Buy something local. Get some plums." Of course, this doesn't work in, say, Dublin, where Dickman also helped set up a Google café. ("Everything is flown in there," he said.) When...
There are some lefty aspects: You don't choose what the farmer grows. He does. You might get lettuce one week and then--if, say, a hailstorm hits the lettuce patch--none for several weeks after. Also, you're locked into a fixed amount of food each week, so if you don't feel like cooking for a couple nights in a row, you feel guilty. A farmer sweated over these beautiful ears of corn, and I'm going to throw them out so I can pick up riblets at Applebee...
...League schools. For this reason, a tuition increase in any form is highly scrutinized. Given the financial struggle that FAS currently finds itself in, it retains as much of the annual tuition increase that it can to help address the FAS budget deficit. In this way, FAS limits the amount of any increase that is passed on directly the College. The net effect is a lack of funding for numerous student life initiatives, including the HUDS meal plan. In the past years, fuel prices and labor wages have risen dramatically but FAS has been unwilling to increase HUDS?...
...alone, Mitt Romney raised $6.5 million in pledges. Senator Chris Dodd raked in $3.2 million at the end of last year. Senator Clinton hopes to have at least $100 million by the end of this year, and Senator John McCain hopes to raise a comparable amount. And we also have John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, and Sam Brownback—all of whom are capable of raising millions as well. Even the current news cycle has focused on financing over issues; last week’s war between Clinton and Obama spokesmen wasn’t about Medicare or withdrawal from...