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...RECYCLING $770 Amount a Chengdu panda-breeding center used to spend every month to clean up nearly a ton of daily panda droppings 300°C Temperature at which the dung is sterilized under a new plan to use it for profit. It's then made into odor-free souvenirs like an Olympic-themed panda statue
...another London-based airline analyst said the fine left BA's outlook "unchanged." But it's been a turbulent year for Britain's largest carrier. The specter earlier this year of cabin crew strikes, though eventually averted, triggered mass passenger cancellations and diluted the airline's results. Operating profit in the year to April slid 13%. The airline insists it's not been helped by tough security measures still in place at U.K. airports, where passengers are limited to one item of hand luggage and have to put ointments and liquids in clear plastic bags. In April, BA even came...
While the municipal government acknowledges putting more than $1.3 million into the film, "the money is an investment made through a private capital risk company - it's not a subsidy," says Carles Puig, spokesperson for the mayor. "If the film makes a profit, then so does the city government." But that doesn't settle the issue, according to Jaume Ciurana, the main opposition party Convergence and Union's representative to the city's Institute of Culture. "The private risk society [BCN Ventures] is legitimate, but it was created by the city government to support young, innovative, struggling artists - not world...
...Varsity Club, a not-for-profit organization that is over 120 years old, serves as the primary fundraising liason for Harvard's 41 Division I varsity sports, compiling regular "Friends of" newsletters, organizing fundraising events, and processing gifts made to athletic programs...
...work considered at odds with the local people's desires. With new companies entering a sector that is still largely unregulated, tour operators sometimes take advantage of even the best-intentioned volunteers, Barnett explains. "It's a new form of colonialism, really," she says. "The market is geared toward profit rather than the needs of the communities." Tourism Concern is developing a code of ethical conduct for the international volunteering sector and is gathering information from volunteers, tour companies and the communities they work in. Barnett plans to begin auditing U.K. firms but knows of no such initiatives...