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...years London was a hamburger wasteland. Remember the British take on American diners? Yech. The best most joints could offer was a fatty, premade beef patty lost inside a stale, wan roll. And if the bland, greasy taste didn't drive diners away, mad-cow disease and a backlash against fast food just about wiped hamburgers off London menus. But rejoice, burger lovers: the humble patty on a bun is experiencing a renaissance...
...their money into the latest technological innovation. But the business plan put forward by the Berkeley M.B.A.s--which won this year's Global Social Venture Competition--has VCs convinced that there's also money to be made from handmade silk scarves, woven bags, beaded jewelry and "nonviolent" leather products (the cow must die of natural causes). The business "can help thousands and thousands of communities," says Haji. And within a year, it was in the black. Says Duke's Dees: "Business doesn't know better than the nonprofit world. It just provides another set of tools that we should look...
...your sense of wonder For years London was a hamburger wasteland. Remember the British take on American diners? Yech. The best most joints could offer was a fatty, premade beef patty lost inside a stale, wan roll. And if the bland, greasy taste didn't drive diners away, mad-cow disease and a backlash against fast food just about wiped hamburgers off London menus. But rejoice, burger lovers: the humble patty on a bun is experiencing a renaissance. Three stylish but casual premium-burger chains are challenging fast-food competitors with better bread and meat that goes beyond beef...
...while floundering in an apparently loveless marriage to the neurotic comix-maker Justin Green (who is also famed for his brutal auto-bio works). One memorable sequence, colored in bronze and blood-red, depicts the nursing author in her worst moment, as she imagines herself reduced to a suckling cow and briefly considers killing the baby and herself. Then, just as things seem to be reaching a breaking point in "The Outrage," the story ends with a "to be continued..." While I can't condone such a frustrating tease at the end of book, as long as Tyler continues exploring...
...than $280 billion a year on agricultural "producer support." The U.S. is a piker compared with the European Union, which, when noncash payments and other aid are added in, spends more than three times as much coddling its farmers. World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern estimates that a European cow receives $2.50 a day in subsidies, while 75% of Africans live on less than...