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...noticing that the folks around you are preparing or pretending to be scared. And you should be heartened to realize that - in an age of YouTube, iPod and DVR, where people get their visual media one by one - watching a fictional narrative can still be a communal activity. A thousand people sit as one in the dark, as fretful and enthralled as a child hearing a bedtime story and wondering, What happens next? No, I can't bear it! No, I have...
Fair Trade pays $1.55 per lb. for Antonio's organic coffee, almost 10% more than the market price. But Antonio is left with only 50¢ per lb. after paying Fair Trade cooperative fees, government taxes and farming expenses. By year's end, he says, from the few thousand pounds he grows, he'll pocket about $1,000 - around half the meager minimum wage in Guatemala - or $2.75 a day, not enough for Starbucks' cheapest latte. The same holds true for other Guatemalan growers, like Mateo Reynoso, also from Quetzaltenango. Without Fair Trade, he says, "we wouldn't be growing coffee...
...leaders carried out by special forces and drone attacks. Superficially, this sounds reasonable. But it has a back-to-the-future flavor because it is more or less the exact same policy that the Bush Administration followed in the first years of the occupation: a light footprint of several thousand U.S. soldiers who were confined to counterterrorism missions. That approach helped foster the resurgence of the Taliban, which continues to receive material support from elements in Pakistan. If a pared-down counterterrorism strategy works no better the second time around, will we have to invade Afghanistan all over again...
...tome runs to well over a thousand pages and includes entries from more than 200 contributors. Marcus and Sollors completed the work of compiling and editing the volume after four years, and it was published last week by the Harvard University Press...
...campaign, co-sponsored by the Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition (HCGHAC) and other student groups, generated roughly $6000 for charity and close to a thousand signatures on an online petition...