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...more frugal world, it's all about getting more bang for the buck. Consider Puaramita Acharji, a West Bengali woman who joined Unilever's Shakti program several years ago and now earns about $14 a month selling items in her village door-to-door. Small as that sum might be, Acharji says it has changed her life. Instead of being dependent on her husband, Acharji says, she now commands respect in the village. "It is enough to stand on my own two feet," she says. Increasingly, CSR programs will have to do the same...
Coordinate spending programs. Instead of playing the my-Keynesian-deficit-spending-plan-is-bigger-than-yours game, leaders should coordinate specific measures in order to get more bang for their bucks. It's counterproductive and potentially anticompetitive for some nations to rescue their auto industries, for example, while others don't. Far better to agree on ground rules governing which industries are entitled to receive state aid and how it should be given...
...haven’t given up hope they can launch Gen Ed with a bang,” Simmons said. “I haven’t given up hope. It’s a slightly dimmer hope, but I think it can still happen...
...great way to cap the season—we had time drops all across the board, and it was really inspiring to see that.” Harvard had an especially strong showing in its relays. On the first day of competition, the Crimson came out with a bang in the 200-yard freestyle relay, capturing a solid second place in the event. The team of sophomore Eric Taylor, freshman Graham Frankel, and McKellar and junior Tyler Holland touched the wall in 1:22.39, just behind the first-place Midshipmen. The foursome captured another second place in the final event...
...flying by the planets, over the Kuiper belt, through the Oort cloud (what names!), and past the Orion Nebula, the Hydra-Centaurus supercluster and beyond. Then we venture downward in magnitude - atoms and quarks and gluons and strings and Higgs bosons. There are also journeys forward from the big bang and the creation of Earth. In between, he stuffs his pages with musings on scientific history, philosophy, and personalities...