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...other measures that most people won’t bother to understand might just keep the Eastern seaboard from being underwater in 2050. Expect the next year to be filled with more artsy Environmental Action Committee happenings outside of the Science Center and more alarming statistics about how much precious water your leaky faucet is turning into greenhouse gasses...
Buying bottled water has become a problem. I will not buy Dasani or Poland Spring because both Coca-Cola and Nestle, their respective producers, employ inhumane business practices abroad. Coke has robbed farms and communities in India of precious groundwater and allegedly condoned the assassination of union leaders in Colombia. Nestle has capitalized on the fears of HIV/AIDS-infected mothers in Africa, urging them to buy formula for their children, which often results in these children’s deaths because of missed nutrition from the lack of breastfeeding. The only way that I can tangibly influence the market against...
...Windy City aren 't the only ones waking up a bit disappointed this morning; some of Madison Avenue 's best and brightest minds in advertising might be feeling as if Peyton Manning and the Colts have gotten one by them as well. After spending $2.6 million for a precious 30 seconds of airtime, most companies fell flat in their effort to entertain, engage, and perhaps even entice the 90 million-plus Bowl viewers to buy their product. Researchers at UCLA 's Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center scanned the brains of 10 volunteers who viewed 33 of the long-awaited commercials...
...myself elsewhere. During all the years I spent in that prison cell, the short time of darkness after the light was switched off and before daybreak was always a moment when I recovered the dignity of my being and felt a sense of renewal, simply because I had a precious moment of freedom when I was not under the watchful eyes of the guards. At daybreak, we were awakened by a guard shouting, ''Get up! Get up!'' The shutter of the small window on the door was pushed open. An oblong aluminum container appeared. A woman's voice said impatiently...
...nice. Muhamad Ikhwan, who runs a conservative Wahhabi-style Islamic boarding school in the eastern Indonesian city of Makassar, continued. "Westerners treat women like flowers. They bloom, and everyone can see they are beautiful. But then they fade quickly and die." The Wahhabi treatment was different: "Women are like precious jewels," Ikhwan repeated. "They should be kept in a box, where only a special few can see them and cherish them. Then they will last forever...