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...leadership course that includes a community-service project and continue taking courses incorporating social responsibility throughout their tenure. Like the students, Michigan's faculty spends a great deal of time focused on social problems. Renowned professor C.K. Prahalad, for instance, recently penned The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, detailing how the private sector can both profit and do society good by building businesses that serve poor consumers...
...FOOD PYRAMID The USDA's old food pyramid--with its diminishing stacks of carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, protein, sweets and fats--may have been a license to overeat, as one expert called it, but at least it was comprehensible. The new pyramid, unveiled in April after long consultation with the food industry, is neither clear nor a call for moderation. To find out what those vertical color bars mean--and to build a customized food plan to fit your age, sex and level of physical activity--you have to visit the website mypyramid.gov
...young child and are hereby sentenced to death by incineration.” Before we knew it, we were holding complimentary blow torches and lighting up jackos with more gusto than Donald Sutherland in Backdraft. Meanwhile, youths attempted to set fire to their siblings beneath the 40-foot Pyramid of Pumpkins, a towering inferno of burning jackos that, had it fallen, would have taken out the lion’s share of the families in attendance. But the real nucleus of the festival was the “Carving Tent,” where children hacked at pumpkins like Michael...
...diagram and the details there is little evolution. It’s simple, in both elegant and rather clumsy ways,” said Miller. The advantage of this minimal differentiation is that not much of a structural hierarchy can be identified. Luckily, the CGIS is not a pyramid, even though the Center for American Political Studies gets a fourth floor perch, while—for example—the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies sits just one story above street level. Out in the garden, stout little glass pyramid nudges its way between two wooden houses...
...Welcome, Welcome,” speech—consisting only of Dr. Micheline Mathews-Roth uttering the words “welcome, welcome”—Abrahams officially began the ceremony by acknowledging the 10 recipients of the award, symbolized by a blue cardboard pyramid with an infinity symbol...