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Just a few years ago, most Americans had never heard the phrase "fair trade." Today corporations as mainstream as McDonald's and Wal-Mart are using coffee beans harvested by growers in developing countries who are paid a living wage rather than the minimum one. And now the movement is coming into fashion ... literally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fair-Trade Fashion | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...increasingly stray from our collective understanding of what constitutes a traditional radio service.”He is correct in noting that these new forms of radio are unlike the traditional broadcast system that dominates the radio industry. Internet radio allows for an enormous amount of diverse programming at minimum cost, helping deliver music to listeners in an even more prolific way than the radio wave.What Bronfman glosses over is the important role that radio plays in the music industry. The PERFORM Act treats all listeners as guilty until proven innocent, limiting the public’s fair...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson and Evan L. Hanlon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Getting Legal Lessons from Radio Tapes | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...official training and tests. The $300 associated cost comes out of the amah's pocket, which is what has Hong Kong's Filipinas up in arms. They're quick to note that they already pay the government placement fees while, at the same time, Hong Kong officials cut their minimum wage by $50 a month two years ago. "How will we afford this on our small salaries?" asks Dolores Balladares, the march's organizer. "Our government just wants to make our lives more burdened and more miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolt of the Housekeepers | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

...called “scandal” that makes sense. First, the only way Snickers can be seen as anti-gay is if you look at its fat content. Even there, Snickers has introduced its Marathon Energy bar, with about half the fat and 100 percent of the minimum daily requirement of 16 vitamins and minerals...

Author: By Ari E. Waldman | Title: Gay? Grab a Snickers | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...need not be that way. Most of its problems lie in its implementation. Educational flexibility has slowly withered and died at the hands of the all-powerful Core Standing Committee, which at times seems to exist solely to deny exemptions. One particularly troubling rule is that the Core has minimum requirements for amounts of reading, exams, and papers that prevents classes like tutorials—often the best taught and most valuable classes—from counting. We applaud the Task Force for making it clear that this will not be the case in the future.The limited menu of courses...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Philosophy Taken Too Far | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

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