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Starbucks has launched a line of bottled water called Ethos. For every bottle they sell, 10 cents (in Canada, a nickel elsewhere) will go to providing people in developing countries with potable water. Great, except they're selling the water for $2.49 (tax in). And they scheduled a Walk for Water for today, the same day [...]
Sun, March 25 2007 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
Some new studies are finding there are limits to how much human beings can multi-task. From the NYT story: The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking behavior when working in an office, studying or driving a car. These experts have some basic [...]
Sun, March 25 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Afghan journalists are wondering why so much was done to help a captured Italian reporter, but not his two Afghan companions. An excerpt from the BBC story: “We would like to know why the Afghan government and the international community did so much for the foreign journalist, but not for the Afghan journalists,” Zia Bomya [...]
Sun, March 25 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the BBC: Journalists in Gaza have held a rally to call for the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston and an end to the kidnap and intimation of reporters. The demonstration was the latest in a series of appeals since Mr Johnston disappeared two weeks ago on his way home from work in Gaza [...]