Fast Company, December 2009

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Newly discovered diamond mines could have eased Zimbabwe’s misery. Instead, they’ve set off a new round of rape, murder, and corruption. By Joshua Hammer SPECIAL REPORT

82 MISSIONARY Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is radical when it comes to his diet, his politics, and his meditation. But is his vision to reshape capitalism radical enough? By Danielle Sacks

90 THE RISE AND FALL OF DESIGN WITHIN REACH How the retailer that turned a generation on to the modernist aesthetic lost its soul. By Jeff Chu

98 MIT’S JUSTICE LEAGUE A network of economists called J-PAL is using randomized trials to determine which poverty-fighting policies work and which ones don’t. By Ryan Blitstein

104 JEFFREY KATZENBERG HAS LAYERS Dream Works Animation’s CEO has outearned rival Pixar at the box office—and launched products for Intel and HP. By Mark Borden

Photographs: Courtesy of Design Within Reach (chandelier),

Dream Works Animation (Shrek); Doug Menuez for Stocklandmartel .com (J-PAL); Sabine Scheckel/Getty Images (carrots)

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