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...another points out in a later scene, "each teardrop is worth a dollar." Servants of globalization, these indomitable women enrich the lives of countless others. Thelma, though, will never resign herself to being "just a helper." Sparkling and confident on stage, she declares toward the end of the performance that "Hong Kong is just a stepping-stone. We must use it to power our passion." The play's significant proceeds will go toward constructing fully equipped reading corners for children in Ballesteros, something Unite yearned for when growing up. Her dreams are no longer just beautiful - they're real...
...Mallya's billion-dollar investment will get him more than a seat in the clubhouse. "It really gives him a good portfolio," says Alan Gray, author of the Scotch Whisky Industry Review for Edinburgh analysts Sutherlands. "It has brands like Whyte & Mackay. And the Isle of Jura and the Dalmore single malts are the icing on the cake." The acquisition also provides UB with a ready supply of scotch to blend into Indian whisky and to export to India and China. UB plans to double production at the Invergordon distillery within a year, creating the biggest whisky plant...
...this agricultural town of 3,400, where Colorado's greenest acres gently slope into Kansas and Nebraska, is placing itself smack in the middle of the global energy game. Farmers are plowing their fields, planting corn and feeding cattle while work continues on the first of two multimillion-dollar corn-ethanol plants that could transform Yuma into one of the more vibrant alternative-fuel production centers in the Western U.S. The timing couldn't be better, with gasoline prices well over $3 per gal. as the summer driving season begins. But the choice of corn-based ethanol is one that...
...hard to get a fix on just what the 80,000 protesters who descended on the G-8 summit here in northern Germany this week actually want. Plodding through a field towards the 7.2 mile, multimillion-dollar fence designed to keep him and his unkempt peers out, Channing Jones, a 40-year-old American freelance programmer, said Wednesday his purpose was to get governments to "help the common people." Earlier in the day, the art group Dropping Knowledge had released a huge floating sculpture of a baby into the River Warnow, in a less-than-self-explanatory attempt to show...
...realized in our country, let alone the world. In the inaugural year of Harvard’s first female president, the country once again considers whether a woman should be the United States presidential nominee of a major political party, and women continue to earn 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. As our cultural story continues to unfold, the Women’s Center’s primary mission is to enable meaningful and sometimes difficult discussions, debates, and explorations of the ways that each of our lives is shaped and shifted according to our gender...