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...holiday season, are raised in humane conditions. "No pet store will tell you that its puppies come from a puppy mill," says Ed Sayres, president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, "but these animals are commercially exploited to generate the highest amount of profit at the lowest possible cost...
...pioneering as the lab work is the business triangle Keasling has forged linking the university; Amyris Biotechnologies, a company he co-founded; and OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company. "This is one of those 'only in Berkeley' stories," says Keasling, laughing. "No one is going to make any profit out of this." Berkeley, which owns the rights to Keasling's technology, has agreed to give it away for nonprofit use. The Amyris staff is working to commercialize the technology. OneWorld Health hopes to be manufacturing the drug within five years...
...We’re trying to show the industry that you can treat your workers well and run a business profitably. We wouldn’t be doing any good if we didn’t turn a profit...
...mouth. After he stopped going to classes in the fall of his junior year, he finally took time off, an idea he had toyed with since he had graduated from high school. Though his experience—spending time with his family and working at a non-profit near his home—was a positive one, the ramifications left him confused about his place at Harvard...
...festering racial tensions, crime, poverty and social dysfunction. Forty years ago, Moree was one of the key stops on the Freedom Ride, led by Charles Perkins and other students, to draw attention to discrimination against blacks. In 1997, Estens started the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES), a not-for-profit company that tries to find work for indigenous people through corporate partnerships; going beyond the standard approaches of employment agencies, the AES is staffed solely by indigenous people, who provide mentoring support for the 300 or so workers they place each year. "There's a third of Aborigines who'll just...