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...Jersey, poultry company Ise America has used such exemptions to defend disposing of unwanted live chicks in a trashcan. In a court case in the fall of 2000, the company’s lawyer opined, “how chickens are discarded, falls into agricultural management practices of my client. And we’ve had—we’ve litigated this issue before in this county with respect to my client and how it handles its manure.” When the trial judge questioned whether there is a difference between manure and live animals, the company?...
...hand so I can jot down little symbols in the margins as I go. One of the symbols I use--and I try to use it sparingly--is supposed to represent a little person who's rolling his eyes as if to say, "Jeez, Lou-ise." The record for the most rolled eyes I've ever doodled in the margin of any book is currently held by A.M. Homes' This Book Will Save Your Life (Viking; 372 pages...
...Naturally, when the prefecture set about building the new, $7.3 billion, 26-gate Central Japan International Airport on a man-made island in Ise Bay, it did so with careful cost controls. (In the rest of Japan, many public-works projects are case studies in waste.) The airport, headed by former Toyota executive Yukihisa Hirano and half funded by the private sector, was almost $1 billion under budget when it opened last month. Combined with the World Expo, it may help local leaders to build an international profile to match its rising domestic status. But will that "Nagoya Gal" look...
...endowed the Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), an umbrella for philanthropic activities at HBS with the goal of imbuing future leaders with a sense of personal responsibility to their community...
...School sees [ISE] as central to its mission of leadership development,” says Professor James E. Austin, chair of the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise...