Word: monitors
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...friendly computing used to mean turning off your PC at the end of a working day. That may cut electricity wastage, but what about the rest of the environmental mess that comes with using a computer? The energy-intensive process of refining and molding plastic means that your computer monitor alone is responsible for a cloud of emissions. And when you eventually toss that monitor on the scrap pile, it'll take years to break down and will likely leak a pool of chemical nasties into the ground. But computing doesn't have to cost the earth...
Earlier this month, Chicago announced that despite nationwide divestment campaigns urging universities to sell off indirect holdings in companies tied to Sudan, it would maintain its investments. Princeton, however, said last week that it had devised methods to ensure that it had divested fully from Sudan, even pledging to monitor its indirect shares...
...Philippine government counters that the new licensing rules will allow Manila to more closely monitor the domestics they export and therefore protect them from abuse. Says Rosalinda Baldoz, administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, "We are tired of hearing stories of Filipino maids being attacked in the face with a hot flat iron by her employer." Across Asia, rampant reports of imported workers suffering inhumane treatment include inadequate wages, verbal and physical assault, even rape. Last month, leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, meeting in the Philippines, also took similar steps to regulate...
...Hotline Opened for TF Concerns” (news, Feb. 14) and the accompanying op-ed “Better Teaching, an E-Mail Away” (Feb. 14) that the Bok Center is “partnering” with the Undergraduate Council (UC) to monitor Teaching Fellow performance. We have not, in fact, signed on to the “E-Hotline” in question...
...China the only country that stands to gain from this selective moral blindness. Africa is another success story, where for years massive human rights abuses went effectively unchallenged while the world arbitrarily decided to monitor other issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with eagle eyes. A bit of data from the Center for Public Affairs in Jerusalem: Between the years 2000 to 2003, Amnesty International released 52 reports on Sudan, where, even before Darfur, a heavily civilian-targeting civil war was killing hundreds of thousands. In the same interval, 190 were released about Israel...