working.

"It was an amazing experience," says Catherine Webber, one of Cadbury laboratory managers in the UK.

"People talk about 'life changing' trips, but it really was. To go somewhere like that and see the way of life of the farmers... it really put my own life in perspective and made me much more environmentally aware and less materialistic."

"It was one of the best business experiences I've had," says David Fleisher, a Cadburys employee in the USA. "That's saying something from almost a 30-year career."

Earthshare is also involving young Ghanaian scientists, engaging them in the work and adding to the skills they have learned at university.

Earthwatch run similar projects with Starbucks in Costa Rica, looking at smallholder coffee production, and the agri-business Syngenta, studying how creating larger field margins andBy Amanda Gardner

HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- High school students at a private school in Rhode Island who started school a half-hour later in the morning were in better moods, more alert, less depressed and more likely to actually attend class than before the time change, a new study shows.

In fact, the experiment was so successful that the school has now permanently shifted its start time from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

"At the end of the experimental period, there was not a single faculty member, student or administrator who wanted to go back to the old start time," said Dr. Judith Owens, lead author of a paper appearing in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

"Mornings are so much more pleasant at