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...National Movement of Recyclers of Peru is hoping to change that. Founded six months ago, the group has an ambitious plan that would double income levels while helping the country's municipal government deal with the problem of solid waste. The first step is changing the image Peruvians have of this army of cart-riding men and women, promoting the word recycler instead of more traditional and derogatory terms like garbage picker and scavenger. "The movement increases self-esteem. Society has always scorned recyclers, seeing them as the last rung on the ladder," says Galo Flores, who provides support...
...make at least some people somewhat uncomfortable but that we accept because of our understanding of the deep desire to be a parent - a need that for many ranks somewhere with food and sleep, only it lives less in the body than in the soul. Even the pro-life movement hasn't tried to outlaw fertility treatment: anyone who has ever watched someone they care about run the fertility gauntlet thinks twice before getting in the way. (Read "A Brief History of Multiple Births...
...next wave of anger hit her, as though she should have been content with her first one or two or three miracle babies rather than going on to mass-manufacture them. Maybe this is why she is vilified for having 14 children, while the Duggars, members of an Evangelical movement called Quiverful that views children as God's special blessing, are celebrated for having 18 the old-fashioned...
Responding to a growing concern with the way universities invest their money, Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement and Yale’s Responsible Endowment Project co-hosted a two-day Responsible Endowment Conference in Cambridge this weekend with the aim of demystifying university fund management. The conference, which was also attended by Wellesley and Bowdoin students, included presentations from students from both organizing schools, Harvard faculty, and several individuals who work in the field of responsible investing. “It became very clear early on that there was a lot of interest in endowments, even before...
Nevertheless, the tribesmen of the Awakening movement - Sunni fighters who joined forces with U.S. troops to battle insurgents in 2007 - cooled down after preliminary election results showed them in second place - but well ahead of the alleged offending party. "The results are for us acceptable," said Hekmat Salman al-Ayida, a candidate for the provincial council for Anbar running under the Awakening movement's banner. The tense days, however, showed that armed retaliation for purported wrongs, remains an option for many Iraqis. The prospect of war still hovers over the country, despite the significant drop in violence. (See pictures...