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...issues were company sustainability reports, which “address the economic, environmental and social performance of the company.” The committees agreed to oppose the issuance of sustainability reports for five companies, including General Electric and Yum! Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. The vote came despite a two-year boycott of Taco Bell because of allegedly poor working conditions for its tomato pickers. The report called it “unreasonable” to ask for sustainability reports “in the absence of a clear definition of sustainability and a better...
...Hinks ’06 spent this past summer living with the 19th century Irish dramatist John Millington Synge. He’s long dead, to be sure, but Spillane-Hinks did everything she could to bring him back to life as the sole occupant of his small island hut and the curator of the museum now housed there. Spillane-Hinks spent her time lighting the hearth and leading tours, immersing herself in the Irish culture she’d been studying at Harvard since her sophomore year. Her name, to reiterate, is Aoife. Pronounced...
...Peter Brewin and William Crawford have figured out how to do both. The two British engineers, both 26, dreamed up the Concrete Canvas--a sack of cement-impregnated fabric that morphs into an emergency shelter with the addition of two simple ingredients: water and air. Brewin says the hut can be deployed by a single untrained person in about 40 minutes. Before being inflated, the bag containing the construction material weighs about 500 lbs. The builder fills the sack with water, then inflates it. The hut hardens and is ready just 12 hours later. Once built, the shelter yields...
...that are absent from other remote parts of Mali. There is a generator that lights up most of the houses every night. A water tower feeds water to several collection points. And television antennas bristle from the rooftops of two-story concrete houses - a far cry from the mud hut in which old Mamadou was raised. Villagers have even started dreaming about building a bridge across the river to connect Ambadedi to the nearest highway, says Sekou Drame, Mamadou's brother-in-law, as he escorts a Time reporter back to the wooden pirogue that will ferry him across...
...EVENT 4 (FINAL DINNER): Tuesday, 11/8, Delphic. Dinner will be preceded by an afternoon scavenger hut in Boston involving punches, members, clue cards, limos, etc. Details pending, but block off the afternoon & evening...