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...Edwards campaigns have all hired youth vote coordinators to focus on organization among students and young professionals. Obama hired Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes to oversee the campaign's social networking sites, while Hillary Clinton is using YouTube to reach its young audience - most recently by allowing them to select her campaign song, Celine Dion's "You and I." John Edwards continues to run his One Corps, a community service organization comprised mainly of young adults...
Smart companies like the French retailer Carrefour reach back to the farmer in his field. "We select the best suppliers and train them to our standards--which pesticides they can use, how much to use and so on," says Nadege Claudel, Carrefour's quality and food-safety manager for China. For produce sold under its in-house brand, Carrefour has replicated its European tracking system, which labels every vegetable with a number that follows it from harvest to shelf--and adds 20% to the price...
...parents choose their children's school. That's actually the system in almost every one of the nation's school districts, according to Michal Kurlaender, an assistant professor of education at the University of California, Davis. The differences come in how students are assigned when too many select a certain school or, as in Louisville, a school falls out of a predetermined racial balance. The Louisville goal was no less than 15% and no more than 50% minority students in any single school...
...Cloud was arrogant in suggesting that gays are a huge force behind a better, friendlier and more cosmopolitan Dallas. What was wrong with it before? A city's renaissance or rise is about the contributions that all its residents make, not just the work of a select few. Our country strives to minimize differences between people, but Cloud seems to want to polarize us. Tim de Valroger, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY...
...statute compelling Gov. Freudenthal to select a member of Thomas' own party has received national attention. The Washington Post wrote that the "notion of party consistency makes eminent sense. In states that do not have such restrictions, governors sometimes choose replacements from their own party rather than from the party of the previous Senator." Notably, in 2002, after Democratic Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, Independent Party Gov. Jesse Ventura replaced him with fellow Independent Party member, Dean Barkley...