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...Currently in capitalist economies, a new organization must be either a not-for-profit, with a particular mission or purpose, or a for-profit organization, in which the directors' first responsibility is to the financial interests of shareholders. I would suggest a third way: for-profit companies that both pursue a purpose and seek a financial return for investors. I believe there are millions like me who would prefer to place both our investment dollars and our philanthropic ones into such ventures. Investors in third-way companies could be confident that reasonable returns were being sought on their behalf...
...Buckminster Fuller. I quickly learn that a great deal of time in an arctic research camp is spent preparing and sharing food. In part, that's because the body churns through calories in the cold. But those shared meals--featuring steaks half the size of Frisbees on this particular night--and leisurely coffee breaks foster a family atmosphere among the international scientists at NEEM, all but a handful of whom are fun-loving Europeans...
...most people working in special education and other areas of disability advocacy have adopted the practice of using "person-first" language (not referring to people by their disability or capitalizing on sensational statements like "suffering"), the media consistently lag behind. We should not presume that a person with a particular disability "suffers"; in fact, she used a wheelchair as a tool in her daily life. I encourage Time to lead the way when reporting on people with disabilities or other special needs. Rachel Reynolds, GLEN ALLEN...
...adulation of millions of fans, it's easy to forget that most top-flight athletes are normal folks who fly economy and have time to help a kid locate his duckie. Most toil in their designated sports in hours squeezed between, say, school or factory shifts. Weightlifting, in particular, may be one of the Olympics' most fundamental pursuits, but it is not the kind of sport that lures big-name advertisers. Even though Thailand's weightlifting team won four medals at the Athens Olympics four years ago, most Thais on the plane up from Bangkok seemed to have no idea...
...were counting tree rings going back tens of thousands of years. Oxygen isotopes trapped in the ice core can tell you what the temperature was in a given year; trapped air bubbles can reveal how much carbon dioxide and other gases were in the atmosphere at a particular time. You can even trace impurities that were in the air during the Roman Empire to a specific lead mine in Spain, according to J.P. Steffensen, one of NEEM's field leaders...