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...diminish his standing amongAfrican leaders. In an interview with CNN last month, the South African leader pushed back at Secretary of State Colin Powell who wrote a critical article in The New York Times arguing that South Africa should be more active in Zimbabwe. "I think it is ill advised for him [Powell] to create the impression that he is directing what South Africa should do," said Mbeki. But today, there was none of that. "Sharp differences?" he said when a reporter tried to stir the pot. "I didn't know we had any sharp differences. We didn't fight...
...clothes. And it's no secret that nonprofits like the Salvation Army fund their aid programs by selling donated goods to exporters. But USAgain is the first unabashed--albeit vaguely labeled--for-profit firm to establish a nationwide presence in the U.S. The company, based in Elgin, Ill., is teaming up with recycling contractors in cities like St. Paul, Minn., where residents can leave bags of clothing on the curb alongside paper and plastics. But some towns have sent USAgain packing. "This wasn't about goodwill for the community," says Frank Bergman, mayor of Cahokia, Ill. "This was about making...
...purposes--and business owners who agree to host the boxes are often just as clueless. "Never, never did they mention they were making money off of it," says Kathleen Murtz, who accepted a request from the company to place a bin outside her home-decor boutique in Lake Zurich, Ill. "If I had known they were going to sell the clothing for profit, I wouldn't have gotten involved...
...biopics of the deceased. Cremated remains are fashioned into jewelry, fused into artwork, and stuffed into fireworks for those who want an exit with a real bang. "There's not a cookie-cutter funeral anymore," says Michael Gill, funeral director at the Brady-Gill funeral home in Tinley Park, Ill. "People want to do their own thing...
...there are other things to do with the ashes. They can be melded into concrete "reef balls" by Eternal Reefs in Decatur, Ga. Or launched on a rocket by Houston-based Celestis to orbit the earth in a capsule. Or turned into diamonds by LifeGem in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Allen Lucas, a construction-company executive from Kitty Hawk, N.C., asked LifeGem to turn his share of his mother's cremains into .33-carat stones because "my mother was as hard and brilliant as a diamond." His two teenage daughters will wear Grandma as jewelry...