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...Rather than charging customers for plastic bags, Capers Community Market, a whole-food grocery store throughout greater Vancouver, has a wonderful policy. If you don't need a grocery bag, you are given a discount. You can either receive 5? off your purchases or direct your savings to local charities. What a great idea: shoppers can save the environment and support local groups at the same time. Joanne Wannan, Vancouver
Rather than charging customers for plastic bags, Capers Community Market, a whole-food grocery store throughout greater Vancouver, has a wonderful policy. If you don't need a grocery bag, you are given a discount. You can either receive 5 cents off your purchases or direct your savings to local charities. What a great idea: shoppers can save the environment and support local groups at the same time. Joanne Wannan, VANCOUVER...
...ability to pass controversial legislation that would renew Japanese naval support for U.S. and coalition forces operating in Afghanistan. The deadline for the Afghanistan bill's passage is Nov. 1, and the opposition DPJ had declared its intention to block the law, setting up a direct face-off with the LDP - one that Abe, who liked to tout himself as a "fighting politician," apparently had no stomach for. Abe's advisers put out the word that the Prime Minister's health had been suffering - though they offered no details - but Abe's surrender just three days into a new Diet...
Which is why no one is particularly surprised by the latest disagreement. On Sept. 2, the U.S. announced that a weekend of direct talks had resulted in the North's commitment to account for and disable all facets of its nuclear program by the end of the year--the first time, it stressed, that Pyongyang had agreed to a specific timetable on full denuclearization. The North Koreans in turn announced how happy they were that the U.S. had agreed to take Pyongyang off its list of state sponsors of terrorism, something Kim has long sought. The only problem is that...
These and other companies are discovering the powerful added benefits of reaching out to the poor beyond the obvious direct ones: better morale among workers and customers; a boost in campus recruiting; a chance to identify and understand new markets and opportunities. The result is an outpouring of corporate-based community service: donations of time, often in the form of forgone vacations, and of company technology and know-how, which enable the poorest of the poor to improve their productivity and break free of poverty...