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...stroll down gravel paths that lead toward a 140-ft. (42 m) bamboo bridge. It spans the Ayung River to link two sides of a 20-acre (eight hectare) campus set among rice terraces. As you traverse the whooshing rapids, you can take in a spring-fed infinity pool, a favorite after-school haunt of students like Chiara and Carina Hardy, the daughters of jeweler John Hardy, who, together with his wife Cynthia, founded Green School with profits from the 2007 sale of his eponymous Bali-based jewelry firm...
...tour winds past the school's five water buffaloes. Their dung, as all 100-plus students already know, goes to a biogas system that extracts methane; the leftover waste gets fed to worms, creating a rich compost that goes back into the school's fields and gardens, which students tend. Other sustainable-energy solutions on campus include micro-hydropower and solar power...
...only are the Citigroup shareholders likely to be out of luck, especially if the Fed, Treasury, and FDIC have to step in again, but most of the preferred shareholders and debt holders will be wiped out in the flood as well...
Since Geithner certainly has an office at his Fed job, he can't claim his home as a place of business. But if he telecommuted, he could write off a portion of the cost of his computer and other gear needed to run the largest branch of our nation's bank from home. To get the deduction, though, Geithner, on the basis of his salary, would have had to spend at least $8,000 on home office equipment. But that shouldn't be too tough. If you are the head of the New York Fed, a 73-in. high-definition...
...refugees and immediately noticed their abject state. The coast guard's report stated that there was a significant amount of water flooding the barge; Indian ships reportedly attempted to search for the 300 missing but were able to rescue only nine refugees from the sea. The survivors have been fed and given medical treatment. They are being housed in relief camps, where they were reached by phone calls from the Arakan Project as well as a reporter from the BBC. The Thai government has yet to return TIME's calls on the matter of the treatment of these refugees...