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...inefficient truck: 30˘ a mile. This meant that my high-speed gallop along the highway was costing me roughly a dollar every two minutes. I couldn't have been more flummoxed if I'd been told that I now had to pay a dime for every breath and a nickel for every heartbeat...
Friday, Oct. 7. “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.” Barbara Ehrenreich, who lived the life of a low-wage worker in “Nickel and Dimed,” discusses her newest book, an exploration of the white-collar world of career coaching and networking events. 7 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...
...Starbucks really wants to make a difference, it could donate all of the profits it makes on Ethos to clean water projects—20 times more than the mere nickel it’s donating now. This is the policy of Keeper Springs, a water brand that Harvard sells all over campus. The company, founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chris Bartle, and John Hoving, donates all of its after-tax profits to the Waterkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit that works to preserve America’s waterways. But its reach is much more limited than Starbucks’ Ethos...
...great guy and a true believer in the mission of doing good while making money. Perhaps, then, Mr. Donald will see the problem with donating so little of the Ethos profits when charity is the central concept of the brand. Starbucks customers are smart enough to know that a nickel is nothing on a bottle of water that costs almost two dollars...
...sympathies were with "indigenous people - their aspirations, their problems trying to hold their own against outsider influences, whether they were missionaries, colonial or business people." Nearly a quarter of a century after they gained independence, Samoans are relaxed in the author's presence. Each afternoon, shop keeper Henry Nickel jogs up Mount Vaea, takes off his flip-flops and does stretches by Stevenson's grave. "I just come here to exercise," he says...