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...with a shrug. "Just a bigger scale. Same damn thing." Having picked up a degree in geological engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Van Dyke got his start in the dusty fields of Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1951. His mentor, wildcatter S.D. Johnson, taught him the basics: find a farmer with promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing to drill. Van Dyke hitchhiked to Fort Worth and Dallas to make his first deals. "I had about $500 to my name," he says. "I slept in whorehouses." He had no capital...
Thank you for selecting Paul Farmer, "America's most celebrated doctor for the poor," as one of TIME's Global Health heroes. He possesses not only the selfless ambition to fight medical inequality in our world but also the ingenuity and talent to create and apply practical solutions to health problems. People often talk about medical problems in terms of finding breakthrough cures and medications. Your report has given me a greater appreciation of the distinctly different challenge of making medical solutions available to those who otherwise could not obtain them...
...other homemade bath products under her Cioccolatina brand (www.cioccolatina.co.uk). Adherents are gluttons for her Tiramisu body butter, Rooibos soap, Ashanti Gold soap and La Mocha body scrub?and enjoy a clear conscience as well as clear skin. The shea and other ingredients come from individual Ghanaian producers or farmer-run co-ops; sellers are guaranteed a fair price. Since 2004 Wood has imported ingredients in bulk for other European cosmetics manufacturers, too (www.akuawood.co.uk). And shea? It's her biggest seller, her bread-and-butter business...
...South Korean rice farmer, isn't ready to call it quits. In December, he plans to join 2,000 other Korean farmers in a mass protest against trade liberalization at the WTO ministerial meetings in Hong Kong. The farmers plan to beat traditional two-sided Korean drums and chant slogans against free trade. But even Yuk wonders if the cause is futile. In March, the South Korean government cut the subsidized price it pays farmers for their rice as part of an effort to prepare them for increased competition when the market opens. That sliced Yuk's revenue by about...
...other homemade bath products under her Cioccolatina brand (www.cioccolatina.co.uk). Adherents are gluttons for her Tiramisu body butter, Rooibos soap, Ashanti Gold soap and La Mocha body scrub - and enjoy a clear conscience as well as clear skin. The shea and other ingredients come from individual Ghanaian producers or farmer-run co-ops; sellers are guaranteed a fair price. Since 2004 Wood has imported ingredients in bulk for other European cosmetics manufacturers, too (www.akuawood.co.uk). And shea? It's her biggest seller, her bread-and-butter business...