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Lepri, like most observers, thinks the move was entirely political. She calls it a show of support for a leader the committee and much of the world believes is taking the U.S. in the right direction - a new survey out earlier this week showed that the U.S. global image had soared in the past year - but who is meeting stiff resistance at home; indeed in his comment Jagland noted "we would hope this (award) will enhance what he is trying to do." Still, Jagland tested credulity of listeners when he stressed "we are not awarding the prize for what...
...radioactive ore, concentrated mostly in western Venezuela and in the Roraima Basin along the country's southeastern border with Brazil and Guyana. (The U.S. has uranium reserves of about 340,000 tons.) It may be high grade, says James Otton, a uranium-resources specialist at the federal U.S. Geological Survey, a reference not to its quality but to the "tremendous quantities of uranium in a given volume of rock" found in places similar to Roraima, a virtual Lost World of Precambrian geology...
Ciotti spiked HSPH’s participation rate in Harvard’s annual performance survey from around 34 percent when she arrived to 94 percent in 2008 and 2009 both by dangling carrots like ice-cream or pizza parties and waving sticks—threatening not to hand out small performance bonuses until a department had achieved 100 percent participation...
...recent study of 50 low- and middle-income working moms and dads, for instance, researchers at Cornell University found that only 40% of mothers said they had time to cook a meal at home five or more days a week. More than half the parents in the survey admitted that in order to accommodate their work hours, they ate in the car, opted for quick-fix solutions like frozen dinners, bought take-out meals on the way home or skipped meals instead of cooking. Some chose not to clock out--and give up wages--for a meal break. "There...
...future of the Fair Trade - coffee movement is in question, as some backers raise concerns about whether it has reached the limit of how much it can help. In a private-industry survey last year of 179 Fair Trade coffee farmers in Central America and Mexico, a copy of which TIME obtained, more than half said their families have still been going hungry for several months a year. "When I got the results, I was shocked," says Rick Peyser, director of social advocacy for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Vermont, the Fair Trade company that commissioned the survey...