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...also funds scholarships for its employees' children. The good works haven't gone unnoticed. The Fijian government has twice named the company Exporter of the Year. Business is booming, too: co-director Andrée Austin says the company opened a new factory last year to cope with increased demand, and will be launching a facial line in the very near future. That ought to give the term "fair trade" an even better complexion than before...
...European Enlightenment, but it left behind dramatic mementos such as the Bar Mitzvah coming-of-age celebration and the gorgeous Friday-evening song welcoming God's "Sabbath bride." The Zohar also informs the current Cabalistic resurgence, so fascinating to Jews and spiritual adventurers like Madonna. And this created new demand for an authoritative English version...
...That doesn't mean there's no place in your portfolio for energy. Just that there's no rush to buy at this point. In the long term, demand from China and relatively sparse world production capability will keep oil prices moving up. But wait for at least a 10% dip in share prices before dollar-cost-averaging into the traditional energy sector. And be warned that prices could fall a lot farther than 10% if the world economy weakens. Which wouldn't be a bad thing, for consumers or investors. The next global slowdown will be the time...
...that the nightmare of manufacturing a delicate little Fabergé egg like the Nano in the quantities that rapacious appetites will demand this fall, and you get a sense of the degree of difficulty. "It's been an enormous bet," says Jobs, never one to minimize the grandeur of his accomplishments. "This is probably one of the most aggressive volume ramps in the history of consumer electronics...
...should take the federal government to task for being somewhat slow and disorganized in its response, but even more we should demand a wholesale restructuring of the obviously dysfunctional governments of Louisiana and New Orleans. How, in a city almost entirely surrounded by water and built below sea level, there were not clear and unambiguous evacuation routes is a complete mystery. Why did the city not use its substantial public transit assets to aid in the mandatory evacuation of the city, instead of letting them sit idle only to be flooded and destroyed? According to one blog?...