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...finally come of age in the U.S., they were probably set straight in October when Wal-Mart, the world's leading corporate bad guy in the eyes of a staggering range of social activists, claimed it had caught the bug. The $288 billion behemoth announced it would slash solid waste and greenhouse-gas emissions, invest $500 million a year in energy efficiency and offer better medical benefits to its 1.2 million U.S. employees. "We are going to do well by doing good," said CEO Lee Scott...
...sooner the better, considering the misery. The miners' slums have become cauldrons of drugs and prostitution in recent years. Sewage trickles through the unpaved streets. Houses are often built of nothing sturdier than flattened gasoline drums, and the surrounding terrain looks moonscaped from the slash-and-burn deforestation. Chávez has begun to organize the miners into some 3,000 government-backed cooperatives, which would be given legal access to any gold-mine reserves the government might take away from idle concessionaires, foreign or Venezuelan. But many miners remain skeptical, especially since the cooperative funds are moving as slowly through...
...terms of success but also in position. His freshmen year in high school, Stehle was a 5’10 point guard. Although now at 6’8 he plays the four, he has not lost the skills he acquired while playing the point. His ability to slash to the rim and create down low led to many easy baskets for himself and his teammates—Stehle finished second on the team last year with 70 assists...
...Mike has proven to be more than adequate at point guard for us, but it’s not his natural position,” Sullivan says. “We recruited Mike to be a small forward, rebound, slash [to the hoop...
...such an ideologue. You have to be pragmatic, and you have to make government work," says Wisconsin's Republican Governor Tommy Thompson, who was re-elected to a third term in his generally liberal state with 67% of the vote. For that very reason, if Republicans in Congress slash federal programs that provide state funding, or ask the states to approve a balanced-budget amendment that would eventually require the same thing, G.O.P. Governors will balk...