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...Angelina Jolie for Cambodia's forests The Tomb Raider actress is donating 300 cows to impoverished farmers to wean them off logging and hunting. Two years ago, Jolie adopted a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage...
...cutting-edge amazers, which will be announced this week by the World Economic Forum, prior to its annual meeting in Davos. They are working to combat AIDS, cancer, blindness and hunger. They're developing software that can keep track of anyone or anything, and new sources of power to wean the world from oil. Wish them luck...
...Dubbed "Suburberry" for spreading beyond its niche, the brand may be getting too familiar. Burberry - majority-owned by retailer GUS - needs to broaden its look "and reinforce its price and distribution," says Andy Palmer, account director at London-based ad agency St. Luke's. The company is trying to wean itself off the plaid; less than 15% of its wares now carry it. But will that stop thugs from buying counterfeit items that rip it off? A new floral print planned for next year might see to that. Think Twice Before Merging Five years after Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged...
...what does Parachute look like today? The building where Unocal started converting shale to oil is still there, but it's not doing much to wean the nation from foreign oil. After sitting idle for years, the building was acquired in 1999 by American Soda, which began producing baking soda and soda ash from nearby deposits...
...Large intro classes are so impersonal and so big…that they wean people out based on how well they can do on tests,” Trumpler says, pointing out that this is not necessarily the best way to tell whether someone will be a good scientist...