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...like Jamdat and Infospace are getting panting attention from venture capitalists convinced that cell-phone services are their newest gold mine. Wall Street has started to grill every consumer company about its wireless strategy. But this hypefest isn't quite like the dotcom delusion. "This started with a business model," notes Disney's Shapiro. "We're being prudent...
...bonus for every child adopted above and beyond the mean number placed the previous three years. Another important funding source has been the Dave Thomas Foundation, created by the late founder of Wendy's, an adoptee himself, to encourage the adoption of foster kids. The foundation has funded three model programs, including You Gotta Believe, that are specifically aimed at placing teenagers...
...Miami Dade president Eduardo Padrón argues that "it is unfair to restrict community colleges to that traditional role and allow only the four-year colleges or research universities to teach more élite students." Having these more ambitious scholars on campus, he says, creates a "motivational role model" for the rest of his 160,000 students...
...Designer Natalie Chanin has transformed the appeal of handmade clothes into an economic-redevelopment model with her Project Alabama line. Chanin is a former film stylist (she handled costumes) who, while on hiatus in New York City, needed an outfit for a party. That's when she deconstructed and refashioned a T shirt using the quilt-stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone...
...they have watched loggers decimate the plateau's lush forests, where villagers collected and hunted much of their food. Poverty on the plateau is endemic. Children often die in infancy. Crops routinely fail. Hunger is a fact of life. A few kilometers from Keng Gnao, developers have built a model village complete with sturdy houses topped by tin roofs, electricity, running water and irrigated gardens. Some of the villagers have visited the site, and their minds are made up. "We're tired of life here," says Duong, 30. "We're ready to move tomorrow." For better or worse, tomorrow...