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...working together. The reason is simple: socially and environmentally responsible investment makes good business sense. HSBC, Citigroup and ABN Amro all say that green issues are increasingly important when they consider funding global projects. In the future, "the Equator Principles will be seen as a catalyst for how banks conduct themselves in other areas of their business," says ABN Amro's Burrett. If that happens, activists in haz-mat suits will have to find another target...
...Academy’s broad membership, according to the AAAS website, enables “a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research...
...discrimination that the law addresses, they go one step further and eliminate anything that could conceivably spawn a lawsuit. The Maryland Commission on Human Relations advises, “Because the legal boundaries are so poorly marked, the best course of action is to avoid all sexually offensive conduct in the workplace.” This extensive vagueness threatens all workplaces (which, in essence, consist of every place where people spend any time whatsoever) with the possibility of unwanted and undeserved lawsuits...
...lost decade of the 1990s, when Japan's status as Asia's most vibrant economy slipped, stripped the nation of its primary postwar identity as the world's great pacifist economic power. Now, China's rise seems to have changed the entire nation's thinking about how to conduct its affairs abroad. Polls show that a majority of Japanese are in favor of revising the constitution and nearly half want to abandon the provision against collective defense. Ross Schaap, Japan analyst at the Eurasia Group consultancy in New York, says changes to the electoral process in 1994 that required candidates...
...Jersey." To master the maestro for Copying Beethoven, currently filming in Budapest, Harris, who has been in about a gazillion movies but may be best known for The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, has picked up piano, a pastime he abandoned in fourth grade. He's also learning to conduct. "I'm trying to figure out spiritually, intellectually where Beethoven's musicianship comes from," Harris says. Despite the demands, the role of the deaf composer does have its perks, the normally bald-pated actor admits: "It's nice to have some hair...