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...call for Harvard to divest from any company which pollutes the environment would fall on deaf ears. The purpose of the Harvard Management Company is to make money for Harvard. But divestment is not the only option. A current strategy is to try to get companies to respond to pressure from their stockholders to address environmental issues. Harvard's position could be used to affect a wide swath of corporate America...

Author: By Damon G. Guterman, | Title: How Green Is Harvard? | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Warren Buckingham, until a month ago special assistant to Clinton AIDS policy coordinator Kristine Gebbie, agrees that not enough is happening. "There is a clear recognition that the deaf may be at special risk and may not be getting the lifesaving prevention messages their community needs," he says. "It may be time for the CDC and others to say very explicitly to ((geographic)) communities seeking funding, 'You must also carefully consider the needs of deaf persons.' " Buckingham claims that Gebbie would be willing to meet with deaf activists on the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aids | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

They will no doubt welcome the invitation, though with some skepticism. America has traditionally paid little attention to deaf people, so they are used to second-class treatment. It will take more than words to counter the fatalism expressed by Steven Collins, the current chairman of the National Coalition on HIV and the Deaf Community, as he surveys the current dilemma. "I'm sad but not shocked," he types on his TTY. "Deaf is a small community. Deaf is not important. Deaf people are dying because of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aids | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...Many deaf people don't know about AIDS. It's killing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...hearings before the National Marine Fisheries Service that whales and other marine mammals rely on exquisitely sensitive hearing for hunting, navigating and socializing. Noise pollution from the experiment, she fears, could disrupt the mating and migration patterns of hundreds of thousands of animals. As Weilgart put it, "A deaf whale is a dead whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underwater Boom Boxes | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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