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...under canvas or just the stars. But, says Smith, "it's a life-changing experience, and good food, cold beer, clean sheets and fresh towels are always waiting for you." At tour's end, the bikes are repaired and donated to rangers in India's wildlife reserves, and the surplus profits go to local charities. In November 2006 Smith heads up the first Enduro Africa, an even tougher off-road tour of South Africa where the bikes will be given to the country's health workers. Both 2006 Enduros are already full, and 2007 is selling fast. Sometimes even life...
...outside audit of the School Department. Currently, Cambridge schools submit both to internal audits and to outside audits that the system pays for. Galluccio’s order expressed a “lack of confidence” in the current system, stemming from, in part, a 1.2 percent surplus in last year’s schools budget that went initially undetected. “I believe after 12 years that I’m entitled to ask a legal question,” said Galluccio. “I envision a time 10 to 15 years from now when...
...footing in its annual report for fiscal year 2005, but Harvard’s finance chief warned yesterday that hurdles remain on the horizon for the current year.The University’s total operating revenue last year rose 8 percent to $2.8 billion, leaving Harvard with a $44 million surplus, a modest increase over its $37 million surplus in fiscal 2004.In a letter introducing the report, University President Lawrence H. Summers called the surplus “a reflection of efforts across Harvard to budget and spend with care.”For the fiscal year ending June...
...thing’s for certain—any surplus stress added on to the valiant pursuit of enjoying “quality time” with the fam during the holidays is less than ideal. It takes enough energy to get through the supposedly benevolent guidance from grammy about matters such as precisely where you should part your hair or button your blouse...
...world. South Korea maintains a strict quota that limits rice imports to just 4% of the country's total annual consumption. About 7% of Japanese consumption is accounted for by imported rice, but hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that does reach store shelves is made so expensive by tariffs that it poses no threat to domestic rice?which is also pricey, because the average Japanese farm is small and production costs are high. Japanese consumers pay as much...