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...disclosure of locations and wage information of all factories producing college clothing. It also mandates the establishment of a small non-profit monitoring body responsible for responding to worker complaints. These principles represent a clear break from those currently held by the government and industry-sponsored Fair Labor Association (FLA), which would rely on classified, corporate audits for information about overseas labor conditions. Harvard ought to support the WRC principles, because they represent a bolder anti-sweatshop policy and because they are consistent with Harvard's previous commitment to full disclosure...
...despite these moves, Harvard continues to hedge its bets. Soon after it committed to full disclosure, Harvard joined the FLA, which eschews full disclosure. And though Harvard expresses doubts about the FLA, its own pilot program looks quite a bit like it, with monitoring by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and no disclosure of data or factory locations...
...lesions is cancerous). Sometimes it means undergoing a biopsy. "We found that people were willing to wait," Henschke says, in order to avoid potential complications from unnecessary surgery. The still experimental scan costs $300 and is so far available only in New York City, Rochester, Minn., and Tampa, Fla. But if it becomes the next state-of-the-art weapon in the battle against lung cancer, the medical community needs to make sure its benefits are not limited to one group of people...
Ronald Reagan certainly deserves at least an Academy Award for acting like a U.S. President. JOSEPH B. MIRSKY West Palm Beach, Fla...
...administration said it would be too much of a hassle to pull out [of the FLA], but now that there's an alternative it will be a lot easier," he said...