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...care of his younger brother after the death of their parents, Eggers was a literary Johnny Appleseed who put substantial amounts of his own money into founding the literary journal McSweeney's and starting a publishing imprint, McSweeney's Books. Earlier this year he established 826 Valencia, a non-profit center in San Francisco where students can go for tutoring in writing. At the same time he has slipped into self-imposed obscurity, avoiding the press--he returned Time's phone calls but asked not to be quoted--and staging his readings as cryptic, Andy Kaufman--style happenings. And then...
...Iraq." Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's Prime Minister, on E.U. states threatening to sanction Switzerland for refusing to share information about E.U. citizens' bank accounts "We worship at the feet of J.K. Rowling." Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO, on how the Harry Potter books helped the company make its first profit in a year of dot.com disaster "I feel very peculiar asking customers to give me love." Takashi Uchida, shop owner in Yamato, Japan, on problems with his town's new local currency, the love
...dean of Ljubljana University, former Foreign Minister Joze Mencinger, has a mordant suggestion for protecting farming in the east. "We should really register it as a form of cultural activity," he says, like folk dancing. "It has more to do with our way of life than with profit." There will, of course, be winners too. Big business will certainly gain, including some homegrown entrepreneurs in the east who have brought their firms up to Western standards but pay lower wages. "The E.U. is a chance for Polish products," says Klaudiusz Balcerzak, co-owner of several plants that now produce...
HSA’s rentals agency owes most of its cash flow to the microfridge’s success. They rent it for one year for almost the same price it would cost a student to buy one new from the manufacturer, and the rest is profit. Without the microfridge, HSA Rentals would be left hawking window fans, lamps, and computers, and they don’t have a monopoly on any of those...
This mystical view of the value of a species, which Wilson calls “biophilia,” may be valid. But people also like big houses, televisions and SUVs. The profit that comes from the clear-cutting a tropical rainforest usually trumps any biophilia felt by the citizens of developing nations. Wilson refers to the human “occupation” of the earth in much the same tones as one would refer to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. But the occupation is here to stay, and the question is how we treat those plants and animals...