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Topic: Zimbabwe

  
Zimbabwe, Diamond, Slave, Fields
ZIMBABWE   |  Comment

Zimbabwe’s Diamond Mines Lead to Rape, Murder, and Thievery

BY Joshua Hammer
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Zimbabwe's newfound diamond fields could have helped lift the country from its misery. Instead, they've fueled a cycle of government-sanctioned rape, murder, and thievery -- and pushed the place still closer to collapse.READ»

CASH BARON   |  2 comments

Zim Experts beware!

BY Nigel Shamina
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 10:44 AM

Hey, not fair! While i was busy about my business, everyone else was busy starting blogs - and none had the decency to let me in on the action. Well it's revenge time. With everyone positioning themselves at the latest greatest ...READ»

ROAD WARRIORS   |  Comment

Have Web, Will Travel

BY Amy Wilson
Relevancy Score: 67
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:11 AM

Four of Fast Company's favorite specialized travel sites.READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  1 comment

Here's Some Good Airplane Reading

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 37
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:53 PM

The next time you need something to read on the plane, don't buy a magazine - unless, of course, it's Fast Company. Instead, pick up the new book by work-and-technology guru June Langhoff.READ»

Kenan Samms
CAREERS   |  2 comments

2 Green Entrepreneurs Take on Coffee Waste

BY Tom Musbach
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 2:44 PM

Nikhil Arora (pictured) and Alex Velez are two college seniors who aren't worried about finding a job after graduation; they're going to create jobs instead. Both are graduating from the Haas School of Business at the University of ...READ»

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Contributors

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 29
Tue Dec 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Ryan Blitstein Translating academic research into real-world policy is no easy feat. That's one reason journalist Ryan Blitstein is drawn to stories of its success. This month, the Chicagoan traveled to Boston to visit the hub of a ...READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  6 comments

Censorship Without Borders

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 28
Fri May 5, 2006 at 1:55 PM

Reporters Without Borders, the association devoted to press freedom worldwide, released its annual report this week. The section devoted to the Internet reveals that Net censorship is far more pervasive than you would think. Twenty ...READ»

AFRICA   |  Comment

Africa Technology and Investment Digest Week 1

BY Jon Gos
Relevancy Score: 28
Wed Jul 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM

Ushahidi featured in MIT’s Top 10 Start-Ups To Watch The GIS service for tracking incidents of unrest in violence in Kenya, Ushahidi, has been featured in MIT’s Technology Review as on of the Top 10 Start-Ups to Watch… ...READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

Designed for Life

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 26
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:14 AM

Industrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.READ»

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COWS TO KILOWATTS   |  1 comment

Tech Award Laureates: Cows to Kilowatts Produces Clean, Waste-Reducing Energy

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 25
Wed Sep 9, 2009 at 1:26 PM

Each year, the Tech Awards honors innovators who use technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners are a motley crew, ranging from nutrient-rich rice and open-source math software to a slaughterhouse waste-reducing program ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

The Latest Chinese Success Story

BY Michael A. Prospero
Relevancy Score: 23
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:46 AM

Globalization comes to rest on the last thing you'll ever buy.READ»

China in Africa
BUSINESS TRAVEL   |  26 comments

China Saps Mozambique of Timber Resources

BY Richard Behar
Relevancy Score: 21
Sun Jun 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM

In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia province, the country's poorest. Maganja is a tiny district, a five-hour drive along ...READ»

FISH ON FRIDAY   |  1 comment

Fish on Friday: Six Wives & a Fitness Revolution

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 17
Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 3:22 PM

If you’re in the gym this weekend, toning up on a weight machine, push a little harder and smile in tribute to the cantankerous fellow who made it possible: Arthur Jones. It is the rare character who lives with the gusto, the ...READ»

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Pioneers of the Future

BY Julie Piotrowski
Relevancy Score: 14
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:32 AM

They are young visionaries who thrive off the energy, enthusiasm, and ideas generated within Pioneers of Change. Their diversity and compassion are their greatest assets. Their commitment to educating future generations is their greatest promise.READ»

China in Africa
BUSINESS TRAVEL   |  10 comments

Mineral Wealth of the Congo

BY Richard Behar
Relevancy Score: 12
Sun Jun 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM

A simple stroll down the streets of Kinshasa reveals how precarious life has become in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This city of ugly half-finished buildings radiates both the optimism and the paranoia of a gold-rush town. ...READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS   |  5 comments

A Cast of Leaders

BY Stevan Alburty
Relevancy Score: 10
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:07 AM

Broadway is the classroom, leadership is the script: 14 Duke students tackle the Great White Way to learn the role of their lives.READ»