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...food companies like South Korea's LG and Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia, targeting Muslims is also big business. LG offers an application to help users find the direction of Mecca, while Nokia has free downloadable recitations from the Koran and maps showing the locations of major mosques in the Middle East. Such offerings increase brand loyalty, according to market research by the Finland-based Muslim lifestyle portal Muxlim.com. "There's a lot of room out there for mainstream brands to appeal to Muslims without making changes to their products," says Muxlim.com's CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry. "It's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halal: Buying Muslim | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...sticking point is democratic freedoms, particularly the right of journalists to report the news. Prime Minister Tsvangirai declared that all the banned foreign media organizations - such as CNN and BBC - were now free to operate from Zimbabwe. But Mugabe's faction has not made operating easy, especially for the local reporters the foreign media often hire to help gather information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe in Transition: A 100-Day Report Card | 5/23/2009 | See Source »

...view the world - often in imprecise, flawed ways that don't even necessarily carry the same imprecise, flawed meanings from person to person. From there we make some pretty hard-core decisions. If we hadn't so consistently been talking about the potential for financial "collapse" or economic "free fall" late last year, maybe money wouldn't have flowed as quickly to the nation's banks. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Green Shoots': The Trouble with Economic Metaphors | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...Funds allocated for study breaks—$20 per semester for every advisee—also are not mentioned. Last year, funding for PAF programming was cut by a third. Many PAFs have said that though their stipend is not being reduced, they would do the same work for free because the experience is so rewarding. “I take it more as a service than an obligation,” said Elizabeth C. Spira ’11, referring to her responsibilities as a PAF. “I would be wiling to take less money and still...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advising Programs, Events Face Cuts | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...avoid being tested, a situation that she said would be unacceptable. “If even one person doesn’t get tested because there’s no anonymous testing, the system has failed,” she said. Rosenthal said in an interview yesterday that free anonymous HIV testing is still available in the Boston area. As for the protest, he said that he does not anticipate that it will have bearing on UHS policy because he hasn’t received formal complaints from the protestors. “I’ve never heard anything...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest UHS' New HIV Testing Policy | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

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