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Jiang thinks chickens - along with Chinese urbanites' growing hunger for expensive organic food - might be one answer. For the last two years, he has been running a pilot project in an Inner Mongolian village in which six dozen households have started populating their grasslands with chickens instead of hundreds of goats or sheep. More than 10,000 free-range chickens have fed on the grasslands' insects and plants, and then fertilized the land, restoring plant life and creating organic meat and eggs that can be sold at a premium. "Rich people in cities consume these products, and the money will...
...year]. Sometimes closer to $200. We need to challenge one another, we need to challenge ourselves. How can the developed world, the donor community, talk about funding different projects in Africa, yet after so many years, you do not find much that has been done? For me the answer is that there were mistakes on both sides. The Africans have not been able to take full ownership and responsibility for [work done in our countries...
...campaign merchandise in January, he imagined a few T shirts, maybe some buttons. While driving to his company's headquarters in Greenville, Ohio, hours after Obama announced his presidential run, Baltes checked in with the operators of his website. "Any orders yet?" he asked, expecting maybe a dozen. The answer shocked him: "Four thousand...
...simple question in bold black letters: “Is Snape Evil?” Around that question, the city’s children held a passionate debate in multicolored scrawls. In J.K. Rowling’s books, of course, evil is little more than a plot point, an answer to the question, “Which side are you on?” But in the hands of an author like Michael Chabon—whose “Yiddish Policemen’s Union” is my book of the summer—problems like evil, exile...
...orphan in China and a group of Sierra Leonean refugee musicians. The opening screening will take place at the Kennedy School of Government. The subsequent 14 films, grouped into six thematic sessions, will play at the Brattle Theatre this weekend. Seven of the filmmakers will attend their screenings and answer questions about their work. The festival—presented in Boston by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston and the Kennedy School’s New England Alumni Association—embarks each year from Stanford University, where it was founded 10 years ago by Jasmina Bojic, a filmmaker...