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Over in the printing factory, most of Ratti's fabrics are printed by the silkscreen method, which employs a template system. The more colors a print has, the more screens are needed (a Louis Vuitton scarf covered in tiny flowers requires 24). There is now also the more compact and modern inject-printing system, in which the image is printed directly from the computer. "It's less expensive for a few meters, but more expensive when printing a serious amount," says Vincenzo Cucinella, who manages production...
...money for such development came once again from donors, and since local workers and materials were used, even a little revenue could go a long way. What's more, the old top-down method of letting the government distribute the funds was done away with. Instead, conservation groups would ask the villagers what they wanted, deliver it themselves and make conservation a condition of that delivery. BCI's ultimate aim is the creation of a Bonobo Peace Forest, a series of linked preserves covering a great swath of central Congo...
...AFSCME decided to try an approach that had been codified into law in Great Britain three years earlier: "say on pay" votes, a method meant to harness investor sentiment into a unified message more forceful than any one shareholder complaining to a company's board of directors could deliver. After AFSME petitioned for such votes at a handful of companies in 2006, a swath of other investors, including heavyweights like the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and TIAA-CREF, which sells retirement investments to educators, submitted shareholder proposals at dozens of companies in 2007. Of the eight companies that...
...broadcast network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), that Sánchez and other students first decided to push back at what they called Chávez's increasingly autocratic leadership. Sánchez helped lead thousands of student protesters into the streets, their hands painted white to symbolize nonviolence. That traditional method of expressing discontent was combined with decidedly 21st century ones, as the activists used text messages, Facebook groups and YouTube broadcasts to draw crowds. Despite some clashes with police, the marches were significantly more peaceful than the militant student mobilizations of Latin America's past. "We believe in a civic, peaceful...
...brilliant mathematician, University of California professor David Gale was so passionate about math that he dreamed of creating an interactive museum dedicated to the subject. But he is best known for the matching algorithm he created with colleague Lloyd Shapley that was first applied to romantic pairs: an elegant method to determine couples in which both partners prefer each other to other members of a group. Among several applications, the algorithm has since been used to match students to high schools and helped establish the protocol still used to assign new doctors to hospital-residency programs...