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...anticipate the Phillips Brooks House Association Bike Auction as an easy way to save themselves from three years of shuttle dependence. Many of these students, however, were disappointed by the utter lack of merchandise at this year’s auction. Held on Oct. 3, the auction offered a meager 10 bikes for sale, compared to the nearly 50 of previous years. The reason might have something to do with the fact that the long-standing presence of Quad Bikes, the non-profit bicycle shop for the Harvard community, was nowhere to be seen. Had their charitable streak...
...Meager monsoons mean meager crops, and meager income, for Indian farmers. This year alone, the loss to crop yields and property in the two states has totaled almost $7 million. Dr. William Cline, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Peterson Institute for International Economics says that of all the potential damage that could occur from climate change, damage to agriculture is likely to be the most devastating. "In the southern parts of India, damage will be substantial and similar to that in other countries also located close to the equator," he says. "In these...
...were hard-core fashionistas and Somali nomads. Actually, even Somali nomads were probably wearing them. President George W. Bush had at least one pair. So did Rosie O'Donnell and George Clooney. As well as, oh, about 2 billion children. Sales at the Colorado-based company climbed from a meager $24,000 in 2002 to more than $847 million in 2007. When Crocs went public in February 2006, it raised $208 million - the largest shoe-firm IPO in market history...
...almost 10% more than the market price. But Antonio is left with only 50¢ per lb. after paying Fair Trade cooperative fees, government taxes and farming expenses. By year's end, he says, from the few thousand pounds he grows, he'll pocket about $1,000 - around half the meager minimum wage in Guatemala - or $2.75 a day, not enough for Starbucks' cheapest latte. The same holds true for other Guatemalan growers, like Mateo Reynoso, also from Quetzaltenango. Without Fair Trade, he says, "we wouldn't be growing coffee anymore." But even Fair Trade prices "haven't kept up" with...
...Crimson registered twenty-four shots on the night—with seven from Akpan alone—nine of which were on target. Yale, on the other hand, recorded a meager eight shots with none on goal, leaving sophomore goaltender Austin Harms yawning in the Harvard...