Last week in Britain, the ancient Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce celebrated its 250th birthday by launching a nationwide series of coffee-house debates in partnership with Starbucks. Penny Egan, the society's executive director, has assigned more than 500 society fellows to lead debates in over a hundred Starbucks and other venues. She says: "We are very excited at the prospect of such a cross-section of people sitting down together over coffee and hopefully coming up with tangible solutions to what concerns communities today." Topics range from waste disposal to multicultural arts or disaffected teenagers.
[Source: The Guardian]
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