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...such event, a “Day of Dialogue” in December 1983, included over a hundred students in discussions on US involvement in the apartheid state. The idea of the event, which was cosponsored by the Harvard Race Relations Foundation, was first suggested during a hunger strike the previous spring to protest the University’s policy on divestiture. More than 19 undergrads and one professor fasted for a week to protest Harvard investments in South Africa. That same year, seniors established the Endowment for Divestiture, with the intention that Harvard would receive the money only when...
...After a decade of heated debate, protests and hunger strikes, in May 1984 the ACSR voted narrowly in favor of recommending unilateral divestiture from companies that conducted business in South Africa. However, Harvard did not completely divest based on the ACSR’s recommendations. Instead, the Corporation subsequently chose a policy of selective divestment, which led to Harvard withdrawing investments from 15 companies. The Corporation argued that complete divestiture could do more harm than good for already marginalized black South Africans...
...truthiness.” Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration last fall also featured a session on “Sustainable Food,” timely in 2008 because a sudden increase in international food prices had pushed 100 million more people around the world into hunger, on top of the 850 million others–mostly in rural South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa–who were already suffering from chronic malnutrition before prices went up. Yet none of the invited speakers at Harvard’s session on food had much interest in this larger problem...
...discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Franklin's ships were fitted with the bleeding edge of English naval technology, but the Arctic swallowed them and their crews with hardly a trace. Later explorers found evidence that Franklin's men had resorted to cannibalism before they finally died of hunger, disease and exposure...
...problem is when it comes to coca and cocaine, it's not just a health concern, but a legal one. Since 1961, trade of coca outside the Andean region - where people have chewed or brewed coca in tea to stave off hunger and exhaustion for centuries - has been prohibited unless the cocaine alkaloid is removed. Few companies in the world have authorization to trade in the leaf and most are pharmaceutical companies that perform this decocainizing process. The most prominent is New Jersey-based Stepan Chemical Company which has been reported to supply Coca-Cola with its narcotic-free derivative...