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...comprehensive project sustainability report. Ramu NiCo has an English-language website that bandies about the proper catchphrases for a FORTUNE 500 subsidiary: sustainable development, competitive benefits, cross-cultural human resources. The glass-sheathed Ramu NiCo headquarters in the town of Madang, where the fastest pace of life is set by swarms of flying foxes, boasts human-resources and health-and-safety departments. (At four stories, it is the tallest building in town.) Ramu NiCo has expanded several schools and health centers in mine-affected areas and sent P.N.G. engineers on training courses to China. Remarkably for a company owned...
...enough that we have the pollution and ghost nets that kill our marine life. I wasn't aware the loss of tuna would set the ocean's ecosystem out of balance. Thanks for the list "What You Can Do." Nature can rebound if given a chance. Donna Snow Olympia, Wash...
...enough that we have the pollution and ghost nets that kill our marine life. I wasn't aware the loss of tuna would set the ocean's ecosystem out of balance. Thanks for the list "What You Can Do." Nature can rebound if given a chance. Donna Snow, OLYMPIA, WASH...
...power can intoxicate the party and lead you into believing that you know it all. You take things for granted. [The party] ends up unwieldy and in a mess." So Zuma appointed a close adviser, Collins Chabane, to a new ministry inside the presidency to monitor performance. He set up a planning commission, also inside the presidency, to enforce a consistent long- term vision across government departments, with Trevor Manuel, South Africa's respected Finance Minister since 1996, at its head. Efforts are also being made to reach out to ordinary South Africans. New Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale...
Zuma's most public test will come next June, when South Africa stages the football World Cup - whose expected 500,000 fans will deliver an unprecedented challenge to his government's ability to deliver on security, transport and infrastructure upgrades. Zuma has also set himself other ambitious targets against which the South African public can judge him. In his state of the nation address in June, the new President promised half a million public-works jobs by the end of this year and 4 million by 2014; universal primary education and 95% enrolment in secondary schools...