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...Unilever's empire is doing fine. Several years ago, the company launched a corporate-social-responsibility (CSR) program, in which it hired thousands of Indian women to sell the company's soaps, detergents and other items in their home villages, most of them too small and remote to rate a visit from a Unilever sales representative. The program, called Shakti (Energy), was meant to aid some of the company's poorest customers, but it has accomplished more than that. The 40,000 or so women working for Shakti's network have proven to be reliable representatives - and their clients reliable...
...government will give it another $20 billion or $30 billion. The car industry embezzlement is more artful. With more than one million jobs at risk and unemployment rising at a pace rarely seen in American history, letting GM fail would completely compromise any chance of keeping the unemployment rate below 10%. If this figure rises above that number, it will make every American shudder...
...once mighty prowl a grocery aisle calculating whether they can afford the big box of cereal that is a better deal but ties up more capital. It might appease our restless animal spirits for a time; biologists have found that receiving an apology affects blood chemistry, slows the heart rate and calms our breathing - all much needed at a moment of national fibrillation. Chimpanzees apologize, or at least perform "reconciliation protocols." How hard can this be? (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...first large-scale study to document the extent of the race gap in heart disease, researchers report that one in 100 black adults develop heart failure in their 30s and 40s - a rate 20 times higher than that of similarly aged white men and women. In fact, the heart failure rate among young black adults was more like that of white men and women in their 50s and 60s. "What these data point out is that it's important to recognize that disease patterns differ in different populations," says Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, one of the study's authors...
Quincy House is the oft forgotten and underrated sibling in its neighborhood, as it tends to get overshadowed by its more ostentatious and overrated neighbors. How does this gem rate among FlyBy’s version of the 4 C's? Find out after the jump...