Word: shade
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DIED. MICHAEL JETER, 50, mousy but endearing Tony and Emmy award-winning actor; of undetermined causes; at his home in Los Angeles. Kids knew him as the Other Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street, while adult TV viewers remember him best as the wimpy assistant football coach on Evening Shade. He won the Tony for his portrayal of a dying clerk in the 1990 musical Grand Hotel...
...while not as dramatic as the triumph over poverty, drug abuse and homelessness that Lifetime chronicles, the three years since Murray first set foot in a Harvard classroom add a shade of complexity to her story...
This time it was some other scraggly-faced team, wearing a different shade of carmine, that had reason to celebrate...
This time it was some other scraggly-faced team, wearing a different shade of carmine, that had reason to celebrate...
...Fair-trade coffee, which is often also organic and shade-grown, strives to give growers in developing nations a living wage. Coffee is the world's second largest traded commodity, after oil. But many coffee farmers live in abject poverty. Simply to meet production costs, they need to be paid 80¢ per lb., but the market rate is about 50¢. That translates into less than 12¢ an hour for the workers who pick and process the beans. Companies that are fair-trade certified buy coffee directly from farmers at set prices that allow them to pay their workers a living...