| Perky ideas helping with daily grind
In addition to earning funds, if they sell more than 1,500 pounds, they will receive 25 books from HarperCollins for their library." This promotion is one of the results of her partnership with HarperCollins of New York in a cross-marketing plan that packages her Storyteller's Blends of coffee with the publisher's classics. The cross-marketing packaging concept begun during the Christmas shopping season continues with different titles for different occasions. For Mother's Day, "The Reading Group" by British author Elizabeth Nobel as well as "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston will be packaged with Storyteller's Blends. Another line of greeting card coffees has been developed that reads, "Knowing you sure has its perks," or "Congrats on doin' it, bein' it, livin' it." As a big fan of music star Bono, who is almost better known for his philanthropy than his music with U2, McCombs is also striving to give back to the people who helped her build her business - the coffee growers and sellers from the far-off countries where she buys her coffee.
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Yet new chapters keep forming in states throughout the nation.The arrival of this overgrown neighborhood watch in Wyoming is disturbing, for multiple reasons. First, landlocked Wyoming isn't exactly a magnet for illegal immigrants. Second, the group keeps some dangerous company.Philosophical and fundraising conflicts splintered the original Minuteman Project into several groups. Notably, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is generally seen as the least radical of the bunch. That fact delivers only limited solace.Though Minuteman leaders say their movement is not racist, almost all of their attention is focused on Mexicans who cross the U.S. border. They show little interest in the millions of illegals from non-Hispanic countries. And, while the movement may not recruit white supremacists and neo-Nazis, it reportedly doesn't discourage them from joining.
Wolf Blitzer
CNN, in a report on the Centers for Disease Control's finding that the teen birth rate increased in 2006, focused attention on what liberals surmise is a partial cause of the increase - President Bush's advocacy of abstinence-only sex education. CNN correspondent Mary Snow, in her introduction to her report, noted that, "no one is saying for certain whether the rise in teen pregnancy is in fact a trend, but it is bringing attention to abstinence-only programs, and the roughly $176 million the federal government spends on them each year." The report, which aired during the 4 pm Eastern hour of Thursday's "The Situation Room," featured three sound bites from both sides of the debate. Two came from Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, whose political leanings are never mentioned.
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