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...else's concept (the art factory) and pushing it to new levels of discipline, efficiency and production innovation. Spend time at Murakami's KaiKai Kiki commune and you'll quickly discover that the hippie vibe the place radiates is a front. Looking past the shabby prefab trailers and scrubby farmland they skirt, you see that Murakami is as much a factory floor manager as an artist. Under his direction, computer researchers catalog recurring motifs for easy cut-and-paste reproduction, drafters transform sketches into outlines on canvas with robot-like precision, and technicians keep precisely documented recipes...
...21st century. Global warming has the potential to change our earth far more dramatically than anyone dreamed possible. By the end of the century, we will have doubled the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, ravaged many of the oceans fisheries and destroyed a good portion of arable farmland. Rising water levels may cause the Bangladesh to descend into the Indian Ocean. Expensive dikes will have to be put up around Florida to prevent a similar occurrence. Nations will fight bloody, genocidal wars fo rights to waters equal or smaller in size than those of Lake Michigan. On the upside...
...brand. That same year, Akarlilar invested $20 million to set up Europe's largest integrated fashion jeans factory in Cerkezkoy, a tiny hamlet in rural western Turkey, 120 km from Istanbul. More than 1,500 people work here at the company's mammoth factory in the middle of rolling farmland, churning out up to 11 million pairs of jeans a year, more than half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest for Mavi. State-of-the-art production facilities at Cerkezkoy gave Mavi the edge they needed. Unlike other global...
...most-debated issue is that of the country’s land redistribution program. There is no question that urgent land reform is required in Zimbabwe, where white farmers own 65 percent of commercial farmland, or 18.5 percent of the total area of the country. This is an entirely indefensible proportion given the miniscule percentage of whites living in Zimbabwe, but far less than the inflated figures often put forward by Mugabe’s proponents. However, the need for reform has been undisputed since independence. In fact, land reform was an important part of the 1979 negotiations that paved...
Other countries in southern Africa have their own forms of land reform, some of them with less violence. Progress there is generally slow and unsteady, however, because the participation of white farmers is voluntary. South Africa, which has only expropriated one farm, expects to transfer 30 percent of the farmland to black farmers by 2015. But this reform is not only too slow and too small, it is also plagued by white farmers who inflate the value of their land to make a profit...