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...Lowdown:It's a hefty task, trying to tell the history of man through a single animal. Beef attempts this, much in the vein of the many "(Name of Product): How (synonym for name of product) Changed the World"-type books that have flooded the market in the past decade. And it does a lot of admirably hefty lifting, offering fascinating interludes about Spanish bullfighting and Masai tribesmen in some places and a really delicious rib recipe or a listing of different cheeses in others. But the authors' florid writing-"Herders constitute neither the world's oldest profession, nor indeed...
...their devastating effects. A scion of one of Turkey's most famous business dynasties, she is chairwoman of Akbank, the country's biggest privately owned bank. Back in 2001, she lived through a meltdown of the Turkish banking system and a terrifying 9.5% one-year drop in gross domestic product. Akbank posted a big loss that year, but at least it escaped a worse fate: almost half of the nation's 80-plus banks disappeared...
That attitude hardly emerged overnight. For the past few years, Greenpeace has been ranking and publishing electronics companies' greenness based on how toxic their products are, the efficacy of their recycling policies and their impact on the climate. (The Finnish cell-phone company Nokia holds the top spot, while Nintendo and Microsoft lag at the bottom.) The public scolding has helped prompt electronics makers to start changing product design and production - and encourage a private shift among electronics-industry workers, who, like many Americans, are gradually focusing attention on the environmental value of their work. Their bosses have noticed...
According to Shafeen Charania, the director of marketing in Microsoft’s education product group, Microsoft agreed to donate a tablet PC to each of the course’s TFs “to facilitate better teaching outcomes and help students effectively visualize the concepts of computer science...
...that has helped him claw his way up during his college career—from the second freshman eight boat to the championship four, competing this weekend in the 44th Head of the Charles Regatta.“[Schreck’s ascent] is definitely due and definitely a product of his attitude and hard work,” senior teammate Jim Bayley said.Growing up a two-sport athlete in baseball and basketball, Schreck had never been exposed to rowing until he transferred from his public high school to an all-boys prep school outside of Philadelphia. Adding crew...