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...Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) began circulating an online petition in early March in support of their "targeted divestment model," a criteria-based approach that questions the ethics of investing in more than 20 companies accused of helping to finance the genocide in Darfur...
...Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR)—the two-member group in charge of investigating the ethics of Harvard's investments—declined to use HDAG's proposed divestment model. The CCSR report stated that such a model would create a set of criteria that were too broad to be effective...
...important discovery: evidence is building to support the 90-day rehabilitation model, which was stumbled upon by AA (new members are advised to attend a meeting a day for the first 90 days) and is the duration of a typical stint in a drug-treatment program. It turns out that this is just about how long it takes for the brain to reset itself and shake off the immediate influence of a drug. Researchers at Yale University have documented what they call the sleeper effect--a gradual re-engaging of proper decision making and analytical functions in the brain...
...Paea says gangs are everywhere. "Every street corner has one," he says. "A lot of kids we deal with have no direction, no activities, nothing whatsoever. You've got some who have grown up without a dad-just a mum-and the only role model they've got is the older guys in the neighborhood who are gang connected. They are connected into the wrong environment, and it's the same in school: they connect with the wrong child...
...seemed like a perfect union of literary acclaim and Bollywood glitz. He: a Booker Prize-winning author and one of India's most acclaimed literary exports. She: a gorgeous model-turned-actress turned cooking-show host. Little wonder then that this week's announcement that Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi are splitting after just three years of marriage is front page news across India, the country of their births if not their main residence...