Topic: DRUGS - on February 28, 2014 at 4:40:00 PM CET
Jamaica will decriminalise possession of small amounts of marijuana this year
IT WOULD have seemed a lot more revolutionary just two years ago but for Jamaica, it is still a welcome whiff of sense. The island’s energy minister, Philip Paulwell, who also leads government business in parliament, has said he will find time this year to decriminalise possession of small amounts of marijuana. At a stroke, the move will cut the number of criminal offences by as many as a million a week. It will also make a Jamaican break somewhat less nervy for ganja-puffing tourists.
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Topic: LEGO - on February 28, 2014 at 4:39:00 PM CET
Lego builds yet another record profit to become world's top toymaker
It is a brand name familiar to children around the world, but a decade ago Lego was in crisis. Sales were collapsing at a rate of 26% a year, it lost 1.4bn Danish kroner (£150m) in 2003 and private equity firms were circling the 82-year-old family-owned Danish company.
Now, after a series of job cuts and the ending of the family's management of the company, the plastic brick business has rebuilt itself into the world's most profitable toy maker ahead of Barbie's Mattel.
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Topic: NEWS - on February 28, 2014 at 4:37:00 PM CET
Mike Parker, „Godfather of Helvetica“, R.I.P.
Mike Parker ist gestorben. Er war als Chef der Mergenthaler Linotype Company Ende der Fünfziger für den Aufbau der Linotype Type Library verantwortlich, die im Laufe der Zeit zum Industriestandard für Schriftsatz wurde und bis heute die wahrscheinlich umfangreichste Sammlung hochwertiger Schriften ist.
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