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...This really began back in the 1970s with the Clean Water Act, but the efforts of the Charles River Watershed Association show what a good nonprofit can do with some good science," said Roger Abele, a local EPA official who has been paddling on the Charles for the past 30 years...
...call for tighter controls on dietary supplements, including the memory pill Ginkgo biloba (which has been found to cause excessive bleeding and, in rare cases, stroke), the study's conclusions touched a raw nerve among those who see herbal medicine as a gentler, more natural route to healing. The nonprofit American Botanical Council issued a stinging press release criticizing the research as inconclusive, and the supplement industry's Council for Responsible Nutrition said there was nothing in the study that showed St. John's wort wouldn't work in cases of mild to moderate depression. Says the group's president...
...order to make up for their feared lapses, parents indeed started buying the approved kinds of music--and a whole lot more. A study conducted by Zero to Three, a nonprofit research group, found that almost 80% of parents with a high school education or less were assiduously using flash cards, television and computer games to try to keep their babies' minds engaged...
...Harvard doesn’t have to enact a living wage—Harvard, and only Harvard, has ultimate control over internal matters such as its workers’ pay. And most of the time, Harvard does whatever it pleases. But as a supposedly nonprofit educational institution—and the richest, most visible and powerful one in the world at that—Harvard has the opportunity to genuinely take care of its workers in a way that companies in the free market usually cannot. By enacting a living wage, the University can begin to become an ideological leader...
...order to make up for their feared lapses, parents indeed started buying the approved kinds of music - and a whole lot more. A study conducted by Zero to Three, a nonprofit research group, found that almost 80% of parents with a high school education or less were assiduously using flash cards, television and computer games to try to keep their babies' minds engaged...