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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "We try to boil our designs down to be as simple as possible, with fewer parts and less material," King says. The company's Freedom chair, for example, has 132 parts. A comparable chair from the competition has 275. King is lobbying to bring to his industry the kind of regulation that exists in the food business. He would like to see chairs labeled with sustainability scores based on their content. Humanscale would fare well: about 62% of the material in its Freedom chair is recycled. That's not material that is recyclable (although it's that...
...Montessori-style freedom works. For the past nine years, Whole Foods has been voted one of Forbes' top 100 companies to work for, this year placing 15th. And with its co-presidents, there's even a team at the top. Both men have natural-food backgrounds and have clocked about 15 years with the company. They consider their co-leadership?and mutual respect?an example to their 40,000 teammates. "He's a Buddha. He's incredibly wise and a brilliant retailer," the California-based Robb says about Gallo. "Walter's much more of a risk taker and always...
This is why the American teachers emphasize the power of beauty to “heal”—they really believe Afghan women will one day earn freedom and equality through earning an income to support themselves and their family...
...film also raises questions about globalization, specifically about how American culture is received abroad. The many cultural and value exchanges between the American females and their Afghan students are humorous and telling. Each hairdresser brings her own ideas of beauty and freedom to the classroom and tells her students to use their power to transform their country. Whether this is imposing superficial American materialism or empowering the Afghan women is not obvious, despite the film’s optimistic overtone...
...counts. The jury deadlocked on the remaining counts against him, but jurors later indicated to reporters that most of them had favored acquittal on those charges as well. The government, they said, simply wasn't able to establish a clear link between al-Arian's constitutionally protected freedom to express support for the PIJ and the group's violent acts half a world away. It was one of the Justice Department's most embarrassing legal setbacks since 9/11...