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...villages of Arakan state, is composed of ethnic minorities. The engagement side preaches practicality, arguing that some investment will trickle down to the populace and that cultural exchange is better than imposed isolationism. When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Asia on her inaugural foreign trip last month, she weighed in on the Burma question, acknowledging: "Clearly the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta ... [which is] impervious to influence from anyone." (See pictures of Burma's discontent...
...more frugal world, it's all about getting more bang for the buck. Consider Puaramita Acharji, a West Bengali woman who joined Unilever's Shakti program several years ago and now earns about $14 a month selling items in her village door-to-door. Small as that sum might be, Acharji says it has changed her life. Instead of being dependent on her husband, Acharji says, she now commands respect in the village. "It is enough to stand on my own two feet," she says. Increasingly, CSR programs will have to do the same...
...Shugairi began a TV series called Thoughts during the holy month of Ramadan, focusing on the practical problems of contemporary Muslim life, from cleanliness to charity. Sometimes clad in jeans and at other times a white Saudi robe and headdress, he often speaks informally from a couch. "I'm not reinventing the wheel or the faith," al-Shugairi explains in Jidda's Andalus Café, which he opened for the young. "But there is a need for someone to talk common sense." (See pictures of Ramadan...
...good news is that volunteers are stepping forward as never before. For instance, applications through the AmeriCorps online system for volunteer service in February were up 208% compared with the same month last year. Multiple trends help explain the rush to volunteer. President Barack Obama has made community service a central issue. Baby boomers are hitting retirement age in record numbers, with many looking to make good on the idealism of their youth. Yet it's folks who have always given money but no longer feel financially secure enough to do so who may offer the clearest explanation. Some...
...Brown, CEO of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Un ed Pregnancy. "It's hard for people to get a grip on those factors, so instead they spend their time arguing about what's on page 128." But we can't afford to keep failing our children. This month the National Center for Health Statistics reported that teen birthrates rose in 2007 for the second year, after a 15-year drop...