Word: conscious
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...attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming, alternative medicine and urban planning reforms to make communities more livable. He wants business to be more environmentally and socially conscious. Many of his charities use his stature to bring together people at loggerheads, such as ceos and environmental activists, or take the high and mighty to places like prisons and drug clinics they would never otherwise see. And he also views himself as a gadfly in chief, bringing attention to neglected...
GETTING THE SKINNY AT MICKEY D'S Ever wonder how many calories are in a Big Mac? In a new effort to cast itself as a health-conscious company, McDonald's has promised to put nutritional information--calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates--right on the packaging of all its products. The new wrappers will arrive in early 2006. And that Big Mac? It has 560 calories...
...college women are rape victims, according to a report of the Cambridge Police Department. Twenty-nine percent of rape victims are between the ages 12 and 17, and more than 80 percent are under 30. “I wish the students I see walking through Cambridge were more conscious,” she wrote. “I stopped a young woman wearing a backpack just last week because she had on headphones and was not tuned in at all to the street. She was an easy target for someone looking to assault.” She said that...
...either. “Someone called me a terrorist for wearing this old army jacket of my grandfather’s,” says Wood. “I get a lot of stares. I guess it’s funny that I’m so fashion conscious, but I would never condemn anyone for the clothes they wear.” But these fashion individualists endure the stares, brushing aside hurdles like a lack of materials and the incredible difficulty of seamstressing along the way. Many, like Isabelle M. Berner ’08, began their experiments...
...technology that effectively keeps us too distracted to ask the uncomfortable questions about where we are really going and why. Between our work-hard/party-hard lifestyle, any time or energy for actual solitary reflection is lost—as is any moment for original thought and conscious direction of purpose. And thus many of us unsurprisingly head to posh post-graduation destinations. We are so busy thinking about the micro rather than the macro that we get to senior year without a clear purpose of why we are here and who we want to be. While some of us mindlessly...