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...schools—including Brandeis, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and 10 University of California campuses—have endorsed the year-old initiative, Harvard says it needs more time to make a decision on the issue.Harvard is already a member of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a group of over 150 schools that monitors university-licensed apparel companies and their contractors. The University announced that it would join the WRC in December 2003, after five years of lobbying by student anti-sweatshop activists.In January, the consortium’s board endorsed a new initiative, the Designated...
...built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and Britain. That's only the start of Boroffice's ambitious plans. A communications satellite designed to give even remote villagers access to the Internet is scheduled to be launched next year, and a second observation satellite is planned for 2009. To make...
...goal in launching the Starr Cancer Consortium is to bring these exceptional institutions together in a manner that assures maximum efficiency and the greatest firepower in targeting cancer,” said Maurice R. Greenberg, the chairman of the Starr Foundation, in a press release. “This will enable us to achieve tangible results more quickly and decisively than any one or two members of the consortium could accomplish working alone...
...government offensive in Darfur - Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held areas last week - one powerful voice was noticeably silent: China's. Khartoum and Beijing are close. The China National Petroleum Corp. owns 40 percent - the largest single share - of the consortium that pumps some 330,000 barrels of oil a day from Sudan's oil fields. Beijing has blocked the threat of U.N. sanctions against Sudan's regime and protects it in other ways. But with the bodies piling up in Darfur, would China, which abstained in the Security Council vote...
...arose in the West in the late 19th century are coming to the fore. Asia's rich "are beginning to see that giving can be sustainable and accountable, if they approach it the same way they approach their business," says Rory Tolentino, executive director of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, a charity think tank...