Word: bacon
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...Michigan is a very respectable team,” co-captain Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon added. “We were coming off of a good game last Tuesday, and we just really hope to build off of [this game] coming into Ivy play next weekend...
...gave up some unfortunate fouls in the circle,” Goodman-Bacon said. “Going into next week, we’re just going to work on our circle defense so that we give up less penalty corners...
...good job of finishing that [play],” Goodman-Bacon said. “It was just a matter of getting tips and getting in front of the goalie...
...which sets worldwide prices and standards, raised the minimum per-pound price of nonorganic coffee 9, to $1.35 (a dime of which goes to social programs like scholarships for growers' children). That's 15 higher than the current market rate. And yet, according to Fair Trade researcher Christopher Bacon of the University of California, Berkeley, the per-pound price that's needed for farmers to rise above subsistence is really more than $2. Farmer advocates are urging the FLO to consider raising the price that much. But because such a big jump would probably mean Fair Trade could help fewer...
...player in the $70 billion global coffee industry, dominated by leviathans like Nestl and Kraft. Because producer countries reap only $5 billion of that $70 billion, Fair Trade can help growers get more of their share. "Fair Trade is still, and will remain, a better deal for farmers," says Bacon. But it can help only so much. "This isn't a condemnation of the Fair Trade model," says Peyser. "It's a fact of life." One that all coffee drinkers may have to swallow...