PASADENA - Shoppers, look up: celebrating two years of claiming the moral high ground Saturday was South Lake retail store Ten Thousand Villages.

Ten Thousand Villages (www.tenthousandvillages.com), a nonprofit program of the Mennonite Central Committee, has chosen the IBM SurePOS 300 as its next-generation POS terminal.

By Jenalia Moreno, Houston Chronicle Oct. 27--Catalina Coffee Shop's exposed brick walls are decorated with black and white photographs of Guatemala -- owner Max Gonzalez's homeland and one of several nations producing the fair-trade coffee he pours.

By Rosemary Winters, The Salt Lake Tribune May 4--Shova Baroi was one of the first women to join Keya Palm, an artisans' collective founded in 1987 in Agailjara, Bangladesh. A single mom, she needed a job to support her family.

By Carolyn Shapiro, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Apr. 9--NEWPORT NEWS -- When Talbots opened on Warwick Boulevard 15 years ago, it proved itself a retail pioneer, staking a claim in women's clothing in an area generally devoid of fashion chains.