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How Nuru Works by Nuru International | A typographic essay Nuru International was founded by Jake Harriman, a former Special Operations Platoon Commander with the U.S. Marines. After fighting the war on terror around the world, Jake became convinced that the only way to end terrorism is to end extreme poverty. He left the Marines and enrolled at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business to create...

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Brad Mehldau Trio / Bewitched, Bothered, and...

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Toyota Develops New Flower Species →

Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations in Toyota City, Japan. The flowers are derivatives of the cherry sage plant and the gardenia. The sage leaves have unique characteristics that absorb harmful gases, while the gardenia leaves create water vapor in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory and therefore, reducing...

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ericmortensen: Illy B (Medeski, Martin &...

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Hunter: Finalist in Werner Herzog Competition →

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A Conversation With Gore Vidal →

Who is the best leader in the Democratic Party right now? Do you mean, Who can give the best speech? Who can raise the most money? Look, I’m not a sentimentalist. Nor am I a romantic. I don’t believe in the Great Man theory of history. Great men come along very seldom – and when they do, it’s pretty bloody. But, as Chancellor Bismarck once observed, God looks after alcoholics, little children,...

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Peter Gabriel / The Book of Love (The Magnetic...

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You don't say... →

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the C.I.A, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. The critics say the ties complicate America’s increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build...

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McDonald's Shut Out of Iceland →

The company said that it can no longer compete with Icelandic fast-food joints that rely on local produce. This places Iceland with Albania, Bosnia, and Armenia as burgerless no-hopers.

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Somalian Pirates' achieve their goal →

Fisherman in Kenya have reported bumper catches of shark and shellfish because commercial fishing boats from China and Japan have been scared away by pirates. The massive factory trawlers which used to drain their fish stocks have been scared away and that means there is a huge bounty for local fishermen as well as helping to restore the health of the marine eco-system. Now the fishermen are...

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