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Gifts that keep on giving. (Tools for green living: resources for eco-awareness and action).


Shopping for a gift that's a little different? How about feeding the hungry, fighting disease or protecting the environment in somebody's name? Alternative Gifts International (AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) A machine intelligence that resembles that of a human being. Considered impossible by many, most artificial intelligence (AI) research, projects and products deal with specific applications such as industrial robots, playing chess, ) compiles an annual "shopping list" of reputable nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
 agencies helping people and the planet. Browse the catalog for dozens of worthy causes to fit any budget. Just $1 will care for a Romanian child for a day; $12 buys one night's shelter for a homeless American. The bigger spender can provide gardening supplies for a Bosnian family ($200) or a water buffalo water buffalo: see buffalo.
water buffalo
 or Indian buffalo

Any of three subspecies of oxlike bovid (species Bubalus bubalis). Two have been domesticated in Asia since the earliest recorded history.
 to help Laotian villagers plow plow or plough, agricultural implement used to cut furrows in and turn up the soil, preparing it for planting. The plow is generally considered the most important tillage tool.  fields ($330). Any gift, big or small, means hope and change for people in need. CONTACT: AGI, (800)842-2243, www.altgifts.org.
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Title Annotation:Alternative Gifts International
Author:Hall, Phoebe
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Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Mar 1, 2003
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