Word: jacked
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...become scarcer. Now, the flushing loo - that human innovation that lifted the industrialized world out of its own dirt, cholera and dysentery - is quickly becoming one of the more egregious instruments of waste in this time of acutely finite resources. "The world can't sustain this toilet," says Jack Sim, the founder of the World Toilet Organization - the other WTO - an organization that advocates for sustainable sanitation solutions for all. "This 'flush and forget' attitude creates a new problem which we have to revisit...
...innovation highway - from the West to the rest of the world - many of the best ideas in sanitation are coming from the developing world. And for now, the gap between these initiatives and the large-scale urban sanitary solutions of tomorrow is being filled by inventors and dreamers like Jack Sim and others who gathered this week in Macau. Among their larger visions for collective waste disposal and treatment on display was a network of low-water toilets that separated solids from liquids and assigned them to reservoirs shared by an apartment building or block of houses. Those resevoirs would...
Obama's far from the fastest off the mark, however; in 1976, Jimmy Carter created a transition staff shortly after winning the Pennsylvania primary - well before the Democratic National Convention in July. Under Jack Watson, who had worked on Carter's successful Georgia gubernatorial campaign, the transition team worked throughout the general election, preparing for what would happen in the event of victory. Carter had made it clear early on that he did not want to mirror the setup and size of Richard Nixon's White House staff; specifically, Carter refused to even name anyone chief of staff, instead changing...
...sale when asked about the Private Equity Week report last week, citing a standing Harvard policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief Jack R. Meyer’s Convexity Capital Management—also declined to comment at the time on any action HMC may be taking to sell investments it has with them. Private equity has traditionally been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning...
...Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost choked to death on a pretzel. (See the screwups of Campaign...