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Pyramid Schemes

Posted by Grist at 12:38 PM on 14 Mar 2006

In London, recent protests in favor of animal testing (no need to email us, veggies, we know) got our business columnists John Elkington and Mark Lee thinking: is there a place in the lab for human subjects? A growing number of researchers think so. It's not as callous as it sounds: These folks are studying ways that big businesses can reach -- and help -- the 4 billion people at the bottom of the world's wealth pyramid. Find out what they're up to in today's Full Disclosure.

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Poverty & the Environment
Introduction to the series.
A virtual walking tour of polluted Columbia, Miss.
A portrait of Appalachia scarred by coal mining.
An investigation into why unhealthy food is cheap.
A look at the poultry farms ravaging the South.
Facts and figures on poverty in the U.S.
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