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...served as chief officer and project manager of the Dems’ extensive 2007 report on Harvard employees’ working conditions, which was released on the group’s Web site at the start of this spring’s student hunger strike to support Harvard security officers. Of the three, however, only Phukan won a seat on the Council this fall. Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who has spent three years on the Council, said the trend of Dems running for office—and potentially influencing UC presidential elections—was not unprecedented...
Jiang thinks chickens - along with Chinese urbanites' growing hunger for expensive organic food - might be one answer. For the last two years, he has been running a pilot project in an Inner Mongolian village in which six dozen households have started populating their grasslands with chickens instead of hundreds of goats or sheep. More than 10,000 free-range chickens have fed on the grasslands' insects and plants, and then fertilized the land, restoring plant life and creating organic meat and eggs that can be sold at a premium. "Rich people in cities consume these products, and the money will...
Ironically, when tackling the subject of recognizing people for good work, the three very different CEOs all fall back on corny ploys. Joie de Vivre's Conley quotes philosopher William James: "The deepest hunger in humans is the desire to be appreciated." He says he has given away "dozens and dozens of copies" of the children's book The Little Engine That Could to his employees. Writes Conley: "The fact that a room attendant is given this book personally by the company's CEO, with a customized inscription inside, makes the recognition all the sweeter." Likewise, Kilts believes...
...that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare, starving. I, too, was suffering hunger pains, and was engrossed in the feasts he was taught to conjure out of thin air. I, just like him, could do no more than dream of delectable chewables, constrained as I was to mush for weeks. And there we bonded. Sure, he was a Nazi soldier...
...aids sufferers are on antiretroviral drugs. It is investing heavily in education. The government is also tackling overpopulation, which - in that it describes a situation of too many people on not enough land - was an underlying cause of the genocide. In Mayange, outside Nyamata, Ruxin has virtually eliminated hunger and malaria in 15 months, and the government is now scaling up his success nationwide. Most significant, foreign donors report no corruption, and in its World Governance Indicators released in July, the World Bank found Rwanda's government ranked among Africa's best, such as South Africa and Mauritius, scoring particularly...