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...writing in response to comments in an article “The Ethics of Boycotting” (oped, Feb. 6) In particular, we take issue with the statement: “Nestlé has capitalized on the fears of HIV/AIDS infected mothers in Africa, urging them to buy formula for their children, which often results in these children’s deaths because of missed nutrition from the lack of breastfeeding...
...1980s, it realized it could offer older consumers cheaper rates for home insurance. Back then, home insurance in Britain was sold on a one-price-fits-all basis. Saga correctly reckoned that older homeowners were less risky to insure, so their premiums could be lower. Saga applied the same formula to sell low-cost auto insurance and then broadened to offer a full range of insurance products. Of course, other insurers use age as a pricing criterion, so Saga also stresses not only value but customer service...
...past 10 years, as public funding for family planning has stalled, unplanned pregnancy rates have jumped 29% among poor women; they are now more than four times as likely to have abortions as richer ones. Pregnancy centers offer everything from emergency food and formula to strollers and baby clothes to help with the month's rent. "We're willing to offer $200, $300, $400 on the spot, no strings attached," says Pat Foley, who runs the Wakota Life Care Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. "No life should end because of money." While no one disagrees with that, some do wonder...
Sorry ladies, but Murray is already taken by none other than Sarah M. Kinsella ’07, the other co-President of True Love Revolution. Mixing business and pleasure seems like a formula for disaster, but Murray is serene. “In general, we work together extremely well,” he says...
...imagery. Many of his works are populated with dreadful faces or menacing animals. They often depict desperate figures against a grim industrial landscape, as in the Transformation of an Intellectual (Transformation of Man) (1914-15). Yet Filonov also could paint works brimming with optimism and beauty, such as Formula of Spring (1923) or Landscape (Formula of Spring...