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Starbucks Coffee, for instance, in 2004 piloted its own certification program known as Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices. By 2007, the company intends to buy more than half its coffee from a supply chain that independent auditors have inspected. Among the criteria: growers must minimize deforestation and receive "premium" prices, that is, those high enough to turn a profit...
...innovation since Nintendo 64. While perusing one hot girl’s pictures, you soon find yourself manically opening new tabs or windows in your web browser to explore the pictures of every hot girl in any of the original girl’s pictures. This sparks a massive chain reaction which only the likes of a supercomputer like Deep Blue could truly handle—depending on what school you were looking at, obviously. Oh, snap...
...them, if AgION Technologies has its way. The privately held firm produces an antimicrobial material that gives anything in which it is embedded an enduring resistance to bacteria, yeast, algae and mold. AgION, which has raised $40.5 million in capital, works with manufacturers up and down the supply chain to incorporate its bug-busting stuff into everything from water filters to doorknobs and even the casing of a cell phone, the Motorola i870...
...dispersed, some were killed, some were captured," says Abu Marwan. And over the past year, U.S. operations against al-Zarqawi's organization have chipped away at its leadership structure and squeezed its sanctuaries. As a result, Iraqis who joined as low-level cell members have risen up the leadership chain. Abu Marwan says al-Zarqawi's aides told him their boss's three top lieutenants are all Iraqis. Another Iraqi operative is Abu Abdullah, who had worked on the security detail for one of Saddam's inner circle and joined an insurgent group formed from the Republican Guard following...
...fact, but in this case they chose to withhold what they knew even while the danger persisted. As the poison flowed downstream, information flowed in only one direction: up. While the public remained in the dark, officials reported to their superiors, who in turn reported further up the command chain. At each level, officials understood that there was less risk of official censure in awaiting orders than in making snap decisions that might have enabled residents to prepare...