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...drive system, originally developed by its partner Quantum Technology of Irvine, Calif., with grants from the U.S. Department of Defense. Using that technology, the Karma can travel for 50 miles on lithium-ion batteries before the gasoline engine turns on to act as a generator, Fisker says. The preliminary price tag for the Karma...
It’s been almost a year since that historic election, and our hope has lost some of its audacity. With troops still on the ground and uncertainty still in the air, war in Iraq presses on with no end in sight and a daily price tag well into the millions. And now, President Obama is preparing to ramp up the “good war” in Afghanistan. The United States hasn’t won a ground war in over half a century, and now one of the smartest presidents in modern American history thinks...
...most coffee growers, Fair Trade is still slightly more lucrative than the open market. Two years ago, the Germany-based Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), which sets worldwide prices and standards, raised the minimum per-pound price of nonorganic coffee 9, to $1.35 (a dime of which goes to social programs like scholarships for growers' children). That's 15 higher than the current market rate. And yet, according to Fair Trade researcher Christopher Bacon of the University of California, Berkeley, the per-pound price that's needed for farmers to rise above subsistence is really more than $2. Farmer advocates...
...lieu of imposing a major price hike, the FLO is reviewing other ways it can help farmers. It's making cheaper loans more widely available, providing more technical assistance to help farmers grow better-quality beans and may begin automatically adjusting its minimum price for inflation...
...would treat anyone, from anywhere, at anytime, regardless of their ability to pay.” Mukherjee said PIH hopes to continue his dream of making surgery accessible to all Haitians.The afternoon’s featured speaker was Nicholas D. Kristof ’82, a two-time Pulitzer Price winner columnist for the New York Times who was also a Crimson news editor.“My only hesitation coming here was that I remember Sanders Theater from taking Ec 10 in this room,” Kristof said, drawing laughter from audience members.Kristof, whose research regarding the social...