Time for Tea
Watch out green. Here comes the white tea. The pale minimally processed Chinese tea is being pitched as the next great thing for drinking and as a cosmetics ingredient. Researchers show that white tea has more disease-fighting antioxidants than green tea. The white elixir has joined green tea as a possible preventative for many troubles, from stopping certain cancers to fighting wrinkles.... posted on Jul 02 2003, 1,448 reads

Ecosandals Out of Kenya
Matthew Meyer, founder of Ecosandals.com, decided to start a business in Korogocho after seeing Kenyan poverty firsthand when he went to Nairobi in 1992 during his junior year in college. He came up with the Ecosandals concept after noticing that others liked the locally made tire sandals shoes and thought the cheap alternative to factory-made shoes might have an international appeal. Within 36 ho... posted on Jul 01 2003, 1,311 reads

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Allan Snyder seems to be able to turn on a person's inner "Rain Man", and then turn it off again, with the flick of a switch. All it takes is a strange set of electrodes; and a radical new theory of autism, genius and the human brain. He asked a NY Times columnist to draw a picture of a cat four times, each time with different doses of these magnetic impulses. The results were stunning. Check t... posted on Jun 28 2003, 2,985 reads

The United States will pay out 2.25 billion in subsidies to American farmers in the next decade. Because Africa's agricultural products compete in their home market against those from the US, they enter that market 2 billion behind U.S. goods.... posted on Jun 27 2003, 997 reads

Albertsons, Inc. has announced that over the next twelve months the company's associates and their families plan to contribute at least one million volunteer hours!... posted on Jun 26 2003, 530 reads

As teenagers from a rough part of New Jersey, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins had nothing special going for them except loving mothers (one of whom was a drug user) and above-average intelligence. Their first stroke of luck was testing into University High, one of Newark's three magnet high schools, and their second was finding each other. A decade and a half ago, these three teena... posted on Jun 25 2003, 736 reads

Compassion or competition? That was the title of the conference in Amsterdam, with European business leaders and the Dalai Lama, exploring and charting a global strategy for integrating spirit in business in our increasingly interconnected world economy. The organizing group is called 'Spirit in Business'.... posted on Jun 24 2003, 1,152 reads

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