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...sound like entertainment, but in Japan it's big-time television. On a recent segment of Tokyo's popular morning show Hanamaru Market, a waste-recycling expert submerged a flimsy plastic packet in a tub of water, gently allowing water in and out to rinse it clean. A host of the segment stood by, watching intently, and asked if it was necessary to use soap. No, said the expert, water and a little elbow grease are all it requires...
...trendy way to care for their families. Once Japanese people embrace an idea, they do so wholeheartedly. Environmental consciousness is no exception. Over the past 34 years, Japan has renewed a 25-yen ($0.25) per liter gasoline tax - anathema in the U.S. - four times. A decade after hosting the conference that led to the Kyoto Protocol, Japan will host the G-8 Summit on Hokkaido this year, which will focus on green issues...
...host of Harvard professors, Kennedy School fellows, and nonprofit leaders gathered yesterday in the Hauser Center to discuss the difficulties of managing a nonprofit organization. The event, entitled “Tensions and Trade-Offs for Nonprofit Leaders,” was led by visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy Alnoor S. Ebrahim. Ebrahim, a professor at Virginia Tech, explored the relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington...
Hawley and 14 other competitors, including students from Tufts, Georgetown, and Yale, spent the weekend mingling, managing nerves, and brushing shoulders with host Alex Trebek while they duked it out for game-show glory...
...reports that he entertained any thoughts of boycotting the Beijing Olympics in protest over China's crackdown in Tibet. He always intended, he says, to miss the opening celebrations but to attend the closing ceremonies, where the mantle of the Olympics will be passed on to London, which will host the summer games in 2012. Brown's instinct is for greater engagement with China. "It's in America's interests as well as Europe's to reform our international institutions now. China is knocking on the door to be part of the international institutions," he says. "As China and India...