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...Sagra, they first felt the pinch months ago. "Construction started to really slow in February or March, with the subprime crisis in the U.S.," says Duque, "and that's when the brick warehouses started to fill up." Many brick works in the area closed over summer, but things have hardly improved since then. Duque says most of the brick companies in La Sagra have suspended workers temporarily in a program that allows them to receive unemployment benefits for three months and then return to a guaranteed job. With the financial meltdown adding to Spain's troubles and the country...
...encourages us to make ethical commitments as citizens that align our material needs to our moral ends.” Waters, who founded the renowned restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., as well as a non-profit cooking and gardening program for middle school students in the Berkeley area, spoke of her belief that “food is woven into the fabric of life.” Stressing the importance of engaging youth in the process of growing, cultivating, and cooking food, Waters said, “I’m just hoping that this can happen in every...
...Silbert said. “It was called the nonprofit sector. I was considered on the fringe and not a part of mainstream business.”John C. Whitehead, a former co-chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs, cited the public school system as an area in which nonprofit work could make a difference, saying the government has failed “miserably.”Whitehead called on the panel’s audience members to participate in social enterprise regardless of their economic status. “You don’t need a lot of money...
...because I think that's one of the things you should not do. But when I let down my guard and say that I do want to do something, he'll say, "But where do you need it?" I'm smart enough not to point out the exact area. (See pictures of the twentieth century's greatest romances...
...terrorist bombing was a response to a major military campaign started in August to eliminate Shining Path positions from a jungle-mountain stretch known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley or VRAE. Besides housing the Shining Path, the VRAE is also the second most important area in Peru for coca, from which cocaine is produced. The VRAE has close to 40,000 coca plants and can produce around 100 tons of cocaine annually...