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...handing out thousands of carrots labeled with his blog address to spread the word about Carrotmobbing. The New Jersey student and part-time pizza chef says his carrot-toting antics are inspired by Schulkin's manifesto/music-video mash-up. But the biggest surprise to Montagnaro - who says he plans to start aiming Carrotmobs at small stores in the center of Philadelphia - is how quickly older people grasp the concept. "Someone 65 or 70 often gets this right away," he says. "People my age can be slower." (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...Catoe’s arrival at Harvard gave him his start in modeling. Though he had always been interested in modeling back home in Virginia, “there weren’t many opportunities where I was from,” he said...
...Meeting Wednesday evening, where the news was welcomed by City officials and community members. Michael F. Glavin, deputy director of institutional development for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which oversees planning and development projects in the City, said that Faust’s letter represented a “good start to a continuing effort by Harvard to acknowledge the concerns of the neighborhood and to provide us with responses that we feel are appropriate.” In late December, Harvard stoked community concerns when it acquired another real estate parcel adjacent to the planned site of its relocated Charlesview...
...country in 18 months. Aditya Birla group has opened 548 stores since 2007. Today, with India's economy slowing and with losses piling up, the domestic retailers have shut some outlets and laid off employees, partly because of difficulties in keeping large chains supplied with goods. "When you start opening stores and then work backwards, even we get scared," says Mahadeo Pawar, a vegetable grower from Karjat, 31 miles (50 kms) north of Mumbai...
...peace and reconciliation - and his reading of the Christian gospel - to a religiously charged and troubled land. But the jury is still out on whether this theologian Pontiff has the geopolitical wherewithal to matter in these complicated times. With the Obama Administration gearing up to try to jump-start Middle East negotiations - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington next week - the Pope's presence in the region could have offered an extra jolt of momentum. Instead, the conflicts and expectations of the regions' opposing parties, as well as a papal tentativeness on certain issues, produced a number...