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...activism. Recipients “demonstrate the impact and the value of public service in the spirit of John F. Kennedy,” according to a press release. The two past recipients of the award are a Louisiana state representative, Karen Carter, and the founder of the non=profit group Teach for America, Wendy Kopp. Madigan was honored with the Fenn Award, named after Dan Fenn, the Kennedy Library’s first director and a former Kennedy staff member. Since taking office as the first female Illinois attorney general in 2003, Madigan has fought against fraudulent telemarketing, tobacco...
...make of our notion of “university” when we have an institution whose institutional functions are no longer geographically localized? There’s no question that there’s an enormous benefit to being on campus—it allows students to profit from the incredible resources of their classmates and to interact on a personal level with the faculty. These are all academic considerations, but there’s also the fact of Harvard’s already supposedly ailing social scene—one problem with not being on campus is that...
...outdoors, the animals, the nature--except for reading about it in storybooks or seeing pictures, this isn't something the kids would get to experience," she says. Such enthusiasm has helped thousands of farmers like Siegel to thrive in the growing business of agricultural tourism. At a time when profit margins for crops have been slashed razor thin by rising costs, "you have to consider agritainment," says Kay Hollabaugh, president of the North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association. An estimated 62 million people visited farms in 2001, the latest figures available. Annual agritourism revenues range from $20 million in Vermont...
...houses. We want to grow crops," says Griffin, who says she spent around $30,000 on the maze, which had drawn about 2,000 visitors by mid-October. Griffin did have some setbacks, including an earworm infestation that required spraying. And even though she hasn't yet turned a profit, she hopes to next year. "People will pay to be entertained," she says...
...retired university professor. A former water-district general manager collected $206,300. CalPERS, by the way, invests in vulture funds formed by Wilbur Ross, the New York billionaire who specializes in buying bankrupt companies, slashing costs and then selling the firms for an oversize profit. Among the costs pared: pensions. In short, a public-employee pension fund makes money from the killing of private pensions...