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...Gates has reached a point of self-actualization that is beyond money and fame. This extraordinary man started from scratch to get to where he is today. There is yet one more cause for which he might be useful: saving the environment. Gautham Venkata-Chalam, PARIS...
...Unite not only released a studio-produced album of her own feel-good and catchy ballads in Tagalog and English last year; she even managed to establish a charity that has donated thousands of books and used computers to rural schools around her home town of Ballesteros. Starting from scratch, on her days off, she mustered funds and volunteers from across Hong Kong's social strata. "At first," she remembers, "people would ask me, 'What are you doing, thinking you're so big? You're just a helper.' But I kept faith and I keep trying...
...There are very few times when one would get the opportunity to get engaged in designing a health care center almost completely from scratch,” Pullen says about the Dubai center, which is already in operation despite an expected completion date of 2010. The Dubai center offers postgraduate training and continuing medical education programs, and the center is currently constructing a 350,000-square foot facility that will include an auditorium, case method rooms, simulation center, and 30,000-square foot library, according to the center’s Web site...
...effort to preserve the country's culinary culture, schools have begun promoting "food education" - teaching students Japanese eating habits. Children take time out of math and science to visit a farmer harvesting rice, or learn to prepare buckwheat soba noodles - a favorite Japanese dish -from scratch. But critics like Iwamura and Ehara say the classes have more to do with promoting Japan's inefficient and politically protected farming sector than cooking or eating. The reality is that as long as increasing numbers of Japanese have to be at work or school until late at night, there...
...interests in oil and petrochemicals and opened its first retail store only last November, began exploring the possibility of a nationwide chain of grocery stores-it wants to open 2,000 by next April-it quickly realized that it would need to build its own distribution network almost from scratch. "If we are putting up a pan-Indian business in terms of the front end, then we needed to put up a pan-Indian business in terms of the procurement," says Sanjeev Asthana, president of Reliance's agri-and-food supply chain. Because profit margins are thin in the grocery...