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Responding to the economic crisis and ensuing political corruption that hit Argentina in 2001, the poor, unemployed citizens of Buenos Aires took to the streets to sell cardboard. Two years after the chaos, an informal publishing house called “Eloisa Cartonera” opened to buy cardboard from cardboard-pickers called “cartoneros,” and to create “libros cartoneros,” books made with cardboard covers. This movement was born out of economic necessity and creativity, showing that literature can help build community...
...average individual can tolerate up to eight hours of sound at 85 db - think busy city traffic - before suffering hearing damage. "For every 5 db over 85 db, the exposure time before irreversible damage gets cut in half," says Beth Orliss, an audiologist in New York City. To sell iPods in France, Apple had to max out the volume at 100 db, which, by the way, is as loud as a motorcycle engine...
Still, HP hasn't shied away from using scale to its advantage, something the company has relied on its partners to achieve. Indeed, HP and Microsoft in January announced a new $250 million pact to sell their hardware, software and services bundled. While the deal itself was not groundbreaking, the notion that Microsoft and HP salespeople will now push one another's products almost exclusively is sure to aggravate the likes of Dell, Cisco and IBM. And maybe that...
...wanted to revolutionize the charity thrift store with a focus on designer clothing that can sell for very low prices and really make a profit and make a difference,” Zhang said...
Christopher McDougall, author of the book “Born to Run,” was a bit more vocal about shoe companies while speaking at the seminar. “If you want to sell people shit, make them afraid,” he said, sporting his own “five finger” minimal shoes as an alternative...