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...Marajo. Muana cultivates acaizeiro palms and packages and sells the palms' hearts (prized for gourmet salads) and their purple acai fruit (used in Howler's organic Rainforest Sorbet). In an industry in which exploitation of the environment and workers is the norm, Muana stood out by refusing to employ children. It paid its workers and suppliers at least 28% above the $78-a-month minimum wage. And it harvested the hearts and fruit of the acaizeiro in a way that sustained the plants and their surroundings. But the company was drowning in debt, headed for bankruptcy. Forgach restructured the debt...
...that Google, HotBot and other popular search engines are bad - in fact they're better than ever and improving constantly - but the technology they employ is no match for the sheer speed and diversity of Web growth. Search engines rely mostly on crawlers, software robots that hop from site to site and from one URL (uniform resource locator, or Web address) to another, indexing the contents of pages as they go. For most pages, crawlers do a fine, if slow, job. But when they bump into sites where information is held inside a database, they grind to a halt...
...vowed that "from now on, government has to do better." Bermudez, the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party candidate, knows a thing or two about self-improvement. He entered Los Angeles in 1974 hidden in a car trunk, then went on to start greenhouse and orchard businesses that now employ 800 workers--nearly all Mexicans. Win or lose, Bermudez says, he sees himself as the wave of the future: "There are too many Andreses who'll come from the U.S. to force [Mexico] to do better...
...funds to employ faculty are controlled directly by University Hall, and departments must appeal to the FAS central administration to obtain new faculty appointments...
...Clark says that there have been numerous times when he has rejected offers from companies who want to employ HBS, despite the potential for lucrative compensation...