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• They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children
• Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make way for ever-expanding palm oil plantations
• On one of those plantations a continent away, 10-year-old Ima helped harvest the fruit that makes its way into a dizzying array of products sold by leading Western food and cosmetics brands

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• On the day after Christmas in 1956, Ted Geisel looked in the mirror and didn’t like what he saw
• The 53 years of lines and weather on his face were not, he thought, dignified
• They seemed corroded, maybe even corrupt

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• Above: Ralphs employees Mike Kurtz, a meat manager (left); Joseph Salorio, a front-end manager; Raquel Salorio, a front-end manager; and Jack Dawe, a meat manager in the backyard of Joseph’s home in San Diego on Dec
• Credit: Ariana Drehsler for HuffPost As coronavirus cases rose in San Diego this summer, Raquel Salorio took special precautions whenever she came home from her shift at a Ralphs grocery store
• She left her shoes outside

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• Apple is temporarily closing all 53 of its stores in California and at least a dozen others elsewhere in the nation as COVID-19 cases continue to climb
• The shutdowns will occur just days before Christmas, one of the highest-volume shopping times of the year
• “Due to current COVID-19 conditions in some of the communities we serve, we are temporarily closing stores in these areas,” Apple said in a statement obtained by Bloomberg Saturday

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• Just last week, as Drew Board was about to load a couple’s car with groceries at the Walmart where he works in Albemarle, North Carolina, he approached the passenger side and asked if everything was OK with their order
• Everything was not OK: The man driving told him to stay back
• They’d just tested positive for COVID-19

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• The Federal Reserve on Tuesday took its most significant step forward on climate change, announcing that it joined a group of some 75 other central banks focused on rooting out the risk warming poses to the global financial system
• central bank’s five-member governing board voted unanimously last week to become a formal member of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, known by the acronym NSGS
• The international coalition was founded in 2017 to exchange “ideas, research, and best practices on the development of environment and climate risk management for the financial sector