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...that came to light last week, Harvard University President Derek Bok disclosed that the school has divested its holdings in tobacco companies because their products "create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings." At the City University of New York, trustees voted last week to dump its $3.5 million worth of tobacco stocks. The C.U.N.Y. divestiture was owing, in part, to the prompting of vice chairman Edith Everett, who serves on the board of a new lobbying group called the Tobacco Divestment Project, which aims to promote the sell...
...weeks ago. Less than three weeks later, the company had to admit that operating profits for the first quarter had nose-dived: an anemic $3.3 million on revenues of $7.1 billion, vs. $123.9 million for the same period last year. Management was stunned and shareholders panicked. They raced to dump their stock, driving Philips shares down 17% in two days...
While your carry-on is being X-rayed, you step through the metal detector. It screeches. You dump your coins in a tray and try again. Screech. You remove your metal-rimmed glasses. Screech. As other latecomers fidget behind you, you remove your belt -- and finally pass through. The machine is so sensitive that your tiny buckle...
...pollution is self-generated. Since 1975, East Germany has earned about $600 million in foreign exchange by serving as a landfill for Western Europe, which has major pollution problems of its own. Every day hundreds of garbage-laden trucks cross the border from West Germany and West Berlin to dump their loads. Last year they delivered 5.5 million tons of household and construction rubbish -- plus an additional 65,000 tons of garbage that contained dangerous substances. Smaller amounts of trash came from the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland...
Prosecutors maintain that public defenders are available to replace private attorneys who dump clients with allegedly tainted funds. But critics note that public defenders, paid by taxpayers, are already swamped by the cases of the indigent. Moreover, says Noriega lawyer Kollin: "The Government picks the top of their crop to prosecute a defendant like Noriega. He deserves the same in his defense attorneys...