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Although conservative critics have long opposed giving clean needles to drug addicts on moral grounds, the consensus among public health experts - including the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association - is that the strategy works to reduce the spread of HIV. "I think the evidence for needle exchange is stronger," says Don Des Jarlais, director of research for the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, comparing the scientific support for needle exchange to the overwhelming evidence of human impact on the climate...
McDonald's (MCD) did so well with its dollar menu that Wal-Mart (WMT) decided it will create one, too. The difference is that the Wal-Mart version will be merchandise and not food. McDonald's philosophy of selling very inexpensive food in a clean, well-lit environment served by consistently friendly people has helped it expand its operations to 36,000 stores worldwide. Wal-Mart's approach to retail stores is not terribly different. It may not be entirely coincidental that Wal-Mart was started in 1962 and McDonald's began in 1955. Millions of relatively young people, most...
...Records, and the Standing Committee on the Administration of the Bowdoin Prizes—which will be reconstituted as a prize committee—were all eliminated. FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said that Smith is reexamining whether all these faculty committees need to exist not only as a clean-up operation, but also because they can be time-consuming for professors. Smith could not be reached for comment yesterday. There are currently 63 FAS committees listed on the Secretary of the Faculty’s Web site—but most of those eliminated Wednesday are not even listed...
...Still, Taiwan's past efforts to clean up its act have not been unsuccessful. As the mayor of Taipei, Ma introduced a recycling program in 2000 which has helped the city has reduce its trash output by 55%. With a little monetary incentive - people get fined $145 for not complying and the required bags for non-recyclable trash cost more than for recyclables - residents of the capital have become efficient organizers of their trash. In 2006, Taiwan was also one of the first countries to stop giving away plastic bags. Stores charge a dime or more for one, a policy...
...talks about what might happen in the coming years in China. "I have an illusion that maybe I'll quit all my art and other things and just build a huge office that can contain 5,000 people doing nothing but investigations," he says. "We'll have to clean out all the garbage to have a cleaner world...