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Indeed, it was serendipity that brought Cieplak-von Baldegg to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival—the Mecca for experimental performance art—where she did a video installation for a performance piece. She had received a grant for film work in France, but used the money to go to Scotland instead when she found some of her best friends would be performing at the Festival...
John Mackey fits the profile of a typical green-friendly liberal. He is a vegan, practices yoga, and wears hiking boots to work. Behold the founder and CEO of Whole Foods, Mecca for believers in organic foods, which was recently recognized as one of America’s most valuable companies according to BusinessWeek Magazine (and its stock multiple has at times surpassed even Google’s). But principles still come before profits in this natural food empire: Five percent of profits are donated to local communities and environmental causes; stockholders are given third priority behind customers and employees...
...This spring-break mecca is still pocked by the effects of Hurricane Wilma, the Category 4 that hit last October. Hotel towers stand dark, their windows blown out. The President, his senior staff and the rotating pool of reporters that stays close to him bunked at the Le Blanc, but the majority of the press was 20 miles away at the Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort, where reporters paid $360 a night for rooms that included a whirlpool with a family-size bottle of bubble bath. The property is so massive that I was in ?Edifico 23,? part...
...prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop in Akihabara, Tokyo's nerd mecca. "Who do they think they are protecting...
...including the University of Michigan, which suspended Coke sales on campus at the beginning of January, and Swarthmore, which ousted Coke from some of its dining facilities. Romero suggested that Harvard turn to alternative soft-drink suppliers such as Worcester, Mass.-based Polar Beverages or Dubai-based Mecca-Cola. Romero praised Mecca-Cola for donating part of its profits to charity. According to the company’s website, 10 percent of profits go to Palestinian humanitarian groups and 10 percent go to “local charitable organizations.” The company’s website says that...