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...starts to tweak your brain. So I went into an altered mental state and then went into hallucinations, and it really became very, very difficult. That was one I know I could never do again. Towards the middle of it, I knew it was going to be unbearable. [In comparison] the coffin was like a vacation. That one was the easiest...
...commodities, China has powered some of Africa's strongest growth since independence - hardly a negative trend. Cheap Chinese consumer goods have also stretched African shoppers' small budgets. Meanwhile, for a nation like France to complain about China's human-rights record on Africa seems beyond a pot-kettle comparison - France has long sponsored African "democrats" like former Central African Republic leader Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was ultimately convicted of at least 20 murders. Likewise, the U.S. has close ties to Ethiopia's abusive regime, and to oil-rich kleptocracy Equatorial Guinea, whose dictator was welcomed to Washington...
...percent reduction level below 1990 levels by 2050. For Boston, these uncompromising goals are equal to the global targets set by the United Nations Framework Committee on Climate Change under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. As a leading research institution, Harvard should be a vanguard in promoting sustainability. However, in comparison to the City of Boston’s aggressive environmental campaign, Harvard’s efforts have looked half-hearted. According to the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions, measured in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCDE), have continued to climb over the past...
...Michael Reid's Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (Yale University Press; 400 pages). Reid, editor of the Americas section of the Economist, concedes that Latin America's chronic ills, especially its inequality between rich and poor, are among the world's worst. But his comparison of past and present yields a more sanguine picture: the region is "one of the world's most important testing laboratories for the viability of democratic capitalism as a global project." Reid insists that Latin America's democratic and capitalist reforms are the right path; he notes that Brazil's poverty...
Brooks, though, isn't oblivious to the price it pays for goods. The company's other U.S. factory, a shirt plant in North Carolina, provides a good comparison. Brooks sells more than 3.5 million shirts a year but makes only about 250,000 at its factory, which is reserved for higher-end wares such as made to order and the Golden Fleece brand. Most of the others come from Malaysia. "Part of it is the prestige of having shirts handcrafted in our own factory," says Dixon. "It's a marketing initiative." The tie factory, though, offers no such appeal. Even...