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...Thatcher's true genius was her relentless focus on making policy in support of a remarkably prosaic goal: to let middle-class folk feel that hard work would be rewarded in a better future for their children. Prosaic - but a profound break with what had gone before. Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer from a small town in the dullest county of England, spoke for all those with zippered cardigans and frocks from Marks & Spencer who pottered around garden centers over the weekend, dreaming that they could one day afford something more than a camping trip to France in August...
...poachers in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Thousands have been hunted and captured over the years, prised from the hands of their slain mothers, to sell as pets. Those who are spared this fate are left to cope with a habitat that is shrinking daily, as agribusiness firms continue their relentless drive to turn Kalimantan's forests into palm-oil plantations. "I cannot convey the horror of it," says Canadian primatologist Birute Galdikas, a protégé of the late naturalist Louis Leakey and the world's leading authority on orangutans...
Ralph Nader The former presidential candidate and consumer advocate's latest book is The Seventeen Traditions Paul Hawken is a relentless networking advocate for sustainable businesses worldwide. His books (for example, The Ecology of Commerce) and companies have persuaded businesses to see the efficiency and productivity of environmentally harmonious practices...
...such an elegant example of its kind; if it's comfort food, it's prime-grade meat loaf. Much credit goes to the sly scripts, overseen by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome), which take the viewer to familiar places by clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...
...Eliminated from the Rolfe Division race and resigned to another losing season, the Harvard baseball team began its doubleheader against Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday looking like a team with little left to play for. The Crimson had no answer for the Big Green’s relentless style of play in the first game of the twinbill, losing handily by a score of 14-2.But while there were few tangible rewards left to motivate Harvard (12-28, 10-10 Ivy) towards victory, the team still had its pride, and it came out in the nightcap better prepared to take...