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...supply HUDS with one-third of its produce, including apples, cranberries, squash, and potatoes, according to Zdeb.In the early spring, only 6 percent of HUDS food is produced by local farms because harsh New England winters limit what can be grown.HUDS receive cartons upon cartons of local produce from Costa Fruit and Produce Co. Instead of relying on smaller farms in New England to meet Harvard’s 25,000-meals-a-day demands, HUDS turned to Costa to send loaded trucks from its 24-hour warehouse in Boston to Harvard’s dining halls every morning. While...
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Some countries, including Costa Rica and the Philippines, force companies to pay millions of dollars for the right to "bioprospect" in their jungles. Others have significantly restricted researchers' access: Mexico recently canceled a $2.5 million, U.S.-led drug-prospecting project when Maya Indians in Chiapas complained. But Royero and the Venezuelan government are on the movement's cutting edge: they are developing an unprecedented, classified database of plants and animals that have commercial potential as medicines and foods. Companies that see a scientifically verified, patented discovery advertised on the database would pay--through the central government, to the appropriate tribe...
Vasella has also revamped Novartis' marketing force in the U.S., where it long lagged behind competitors. He poached Paulo Costa from Johnson & Johnson in 1999 and made him CEO of Novartis' U.S. drug unit. Since then, Costa's sales force has grown to 5,800 from 2,815. The payoff? Drug sales in the U.S. grew 24% last year...
...just as Harvard has realized that it must inculcate a spirit of internationalism in its students, Ramirez has become more cosmopolitan to reap the full benefits of the global economy: “I like to travel, man. I been to Europe—you know, Spain. Dominican, Aruba, Costa Rica. Just to learn about different cultures. You know where I want to go? I want to go to China. I want to go and see—it’s a city that I don’t know how to say the name. It?...