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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...
Researchers from Göteborg University in Sweden and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee followed nearly 300 women over a period of 24 years and then, when the women were between the ages of 70 and 84, performed C.T. scans on their brains. Not surprisingly, body-mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height) increased as the women aged. In addition, the women with the highest BMI turned out to be the most likely to have suffered atrophy, or wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point...
Even after the scientists corrected for factors such as age and body-mass index, those crucial cells looked different--in three important ways--in the women who reported the highest stress levels. First, the cells had shorter telomeres--bits of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes. In lab experiments, scientists have shown that telomeres get a bit smaller every time a cell divides, and that when telomeres are worn out, cells can't divide anymore and ultimately die. In humans, older people tend to have shorter telomeres--and by this measure, the most stressed women in the study...
...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...