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...Everyone has their own standards," says Greg Carlson, an analyst at investment tracker Morningstar. "There's no clear line between what's socially responsible and what's not." That's how two respected socially responsible benchmarks--Calvert Social Index and Domini 400 Social Index--wind up holding different groups of companies. While Calvert doesn't hold McDonald's because it fails the index's labor-practices screen, Domini does. And though Domini rejects Pfizer partly on the basis of its environmental record and product-safety issues, Calvert includes the drug giant. "You have a lot of companies where reasonable people...
...over the past five years (although it has fallen behind the pack recently). Ariel Fund, a small-cap value fund, isn't nearly so stringent about screening but does exclude companies that focus on making or selling tobacco, generating nuclear energy or manufacturing handguns. The ultracheap Vanguard Calvert Social Index makes a decent core holding, Parnassus Equity Income looks for stand-up corporate citizens while buying stocks that pay high dividends, and Pax World Balanced gives investors exposure to bonds as well as stocks. So go ahead, make a little money--and feel good while...
...Dartmouth made its push to become more intensely focused on admitting high-powered academic applicants in the late 1990s, the SAT scores of the incoming classes began to rise. This raised the Academic Index (a combination of SAT I and II scores and class rank) to a level just a fraction below that of Princeton, Harvard and Yale. In response, the Big Green football recruits had to fit a higher academic profile as well, in order to fit the banding requirements that indicate how many players in each range of AIs that a school can accept...
Jack R. Meyer, the management company president, said the study placed considerable weight on the Higher Education Price Index. The index stood at 4.6 percent in fiscal year 2004, which ended June...
Obesity, somewhat arbitrarily defined by a body mass index above 30, is a grave health hazard that continues to ravage the American population, despite widespread encouragement of healthier eating habits and moderate exercise. An increased risk for coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, breathing problems, incontinence and birth defects are only the beginning of the extensive list of related health disturbances provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. While prevention and management strategies to combat obesity must remain a national health priority regardless of the exact number of obesity-caused deaths per year, a change in numbers translates...