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...soil is much richer than in Egypt, vast tracts of irrigated land will grow food. That will help sustain Egypt's population and enable the north African nation to expand its role as the region's manufacturing powerhouse. Each country would invest in the projects, and each country would profit. The scheme's proponents at the NBI point out its benefits: water stored in Ethiopian dams, built into deep ravines, would evaporate more slowly than it does in Egyptian dams with their much greater surface areas; it would take a lot less water to grow crops such as sugar, bananas...
CLAIM TO FAME The proprietor of treehugger.com a for-profit online magazine and store, wants to make sustainability mainstream. He employs 25 staff members around the world to write news and reviews of modern yet green products and services. "No one has three hours to search for a pair of organic jeans," says Hill. "So we created a prolific blog that people enjoy reading while increasing their eco-smarts." With 20,000 visitors a day and a searchable archive of 5,500 posts, it's the largest green-lifestyle website out there. And there are TreeHuggerTV weekly videos and podcasts...
...audience gave was really, really intelligent. Television audiences have become fairly savvy. When there’s a badly written scene, they let you know.” Thomason concentrated in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and was active in the Radcliffe Union of Students and the non-for-profit women’s organization, The Seneca, Inc., while at Harvard. She also co-founded the Athena Theater Company, which focuses on staging plays relevant to women with the goal of prompting discussion of women’s issues on campus. Her job as a writers’ assistant entails...
...come under review by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which will have to approve a zoning change and their plans before they can be built.When asked if she anticipated trouble sealing Boston’s go-ahead on the deal, Felicia Jacques, a lawyer for The Community Builders, a non-profit organization devoted to public housing with offices around the country, says the city has been supportive of the relocation. “The city has invested an enormous amount of time and resources in thinking about this and how it dovetails with Harvard’s master plan...
Harvard did not, however, agree to help fund HASA’s efforts to rebuild the fledgling Dar es Salaam University College of Education in Tanzania. David J. Rothman ’81, who has worked with non-profit fundraisers for arts and educational organizations and sits on the HASA steering committee, praised Harvard’s support, and added that the University’s decision not to support the sister university was “completely understandable...