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Haruko Ohmae has the sort of job skills that should get her hired immediately. She can program a computer, chop sushi, speak Russian, operate heavy equipment and (most important) pour tea. But Haruko doesn't have a full-time job. She's a part-timer-and the main character in the new hit Japanese TV show Haken no Hinkaku, which roughly translates as "the dignity of temp workers." Japan may once have enshrined lifetime corporate employment, but today nearly a third of its workforce is made up of part-timers like Haruko, as companies that cut payrolls during the recession...
...Invite her to tea at Buckingham Palace...
...would spoil the point: the unmistakable sense of both the ordinariness and the utter incomprehensibility of the experience of men in war. Outside, soldiers are racing across a patch of ground scarcely bigger than the width of a rugby field. Inside, the bunks are still warm; the bacon and tea are waiting. The men are gone for just three minutes. When they return, everything has changed...
...doing the same for its other spokesmodels too. "We're hoping to bring awareness to CarbonFund.org and inspire our clients to take part," says White. Similarly, Paul Mitchell has joined with American Forests to plant enough trees to offset all carbon emissions from the manufacturing and distribution of its Tea Tree products. Kiehl's and the NRDC are partners in Click for Greenland, an online program that raises awareness about the effects of global warming on that country. Kiehl's will make a donation to the NRDC for each of the first 500,000 visitors to clickforgreenland.com...
...From coffee you added tea and baked goods and lunch items and CDs and books and DVDs; and now breakfast. Starbucks has installed an oven in its stores to warm its new egg/cheese/meat breakfast combos. And you wonder where the coffee smell has gone? I just know that somebody in HQ is going to ask the logical question, if they haven't already: What else can we run through those ovens? We're only using them in the morning. Why not cookies? Or pizza? Or pretzels? Or tacos...