Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International and led it for 29 years, guided that philanthropic house-building organization to worldwide renown. When he returned to his Alabama and Georgia roots in 2005, he quickly rolled up his sleeves again and started a new building philanthropy-The Fuller Center for Housing.
The Rough Notes Company made a corporate decision earlier this year to offer its products and services on the Internet as an additional approach to marketing. This decision was supported by the realization that more and more agents themselves were marketing on the Internet to their customers, the consumer. Given...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in PennsylvaniaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Church & Dwight Co. has announced plans to construct a new integrated laundry detergent manufacturing plant and distribution center in York County, Pennsylvania. ...
THOMASVILLE, Ala. AP - Residents in once-sleepy Thomasville have started complaining about traffic jams on Route 43, which runs right through the town. Much of the new traffic is coming from shoppers, squeezed by $4- per-gallon gas, who are staying closer to home...
Orsus Xelent Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: ORS), adesigner and manufacturer of award-winning mobile phones for the People'sRepublic of China PRC and Asian market, announced today it has signed aLetter of Intent LOI to acquire 60% of the outstanding shares of DalianDaxian Investment Development Co., Ltd. DDID for RMB 99...
This year, as gas prices surged, Richard Bell mounted a sign in the station he owns: "Attention gas cash customers: FREE 16 oz. fountain drink or 12 oz. coffee with purchase of 10 gallons of gas or more." The goal, says Bell, owner of the Market...
RUSUTSU, Japan -- Is any meeting worth spending more than half a billion dollars to host -- especially when your economy is in the tank? That's the question some Japanese are asking about this week's G-8 gathering, as exceptionally tight security pushes the bill sky-high, even...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. & TORONTO -- While history would suggest consumers' alcoholic beverage consumption does not suffer significantly when times are tough -- consumers might even be expected to drink more -- recent evidence indicates that fewer of them are doing so in bars, restaurants and nightclubs. New...
Centex to offer suite of energy efficiency features as standard DALLAS, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centex Corporation today announced the Centex Energy Advantage, a suite of energy-efficient features standard in all Centex homes built nationwide by January 2009. The initiative is expected to...
Charles Darwin actually had a sidekick, Alfred Russel Wallace, with whom he put forth the theory of evolution that challenges religious doctrine to this day. But though this duo agreed on the science, Wallace saw religious possibility where Darwin saw heresy. The great English poet William...
A federal jury in Baltimore has awarded $65,000 to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services employee as compensation for not receiving a raise in retaliation for previously lodging complaints against his supervisors. After a three-day trial last month before U.S. Magistrate...
Kinetic art has a perfectly respectable pedigree: it's defined as "art or sculpture in which movement (produced by air currents, or electricity, or sound, etc) plays an essential part". What's a little out of the ordinary at Tate Britain this week is that, in Martin Creed's...
Recycling Program That Sends Phone Cards to U.S. Troops Has Helped Recycle More Than a Million Wireless Phones, Surpassing Initial $1.4 Million Goal AT&T's Recycling Support to Continue Via 2,000-Plus Company Stores and Volunteer Efforts DALLAS, July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Recycle wireless...
Hit the gym, whip up a lowfat meal, meditate. Sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day to hold down a job and do everything you're supposed to do to stay in tip-top shape. Rather than try to squeeze it all in, take stock of what's most...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ECONOMIC WOES CAUSED BY A WEAKENING JOB MARKET, mortgage crisis, and rising fuel prices may have stopped consumers from buying new clothes, cars, homes, and other goods. But it has not stopped them from buying the hottest video games and hardware. ...
It's a cattle call, a meat market, say its observers. Three hundred or so young men, one at a time--often half-naked--stand before dozens, maybe hundreds, of middleaged men with clipboards and discerning stares, They're potential employers eyeing their prospects. National Football League coaches and scouts...
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