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That discussion goes on at colleges everywhere. "It seems like date and acquaintance rape is the rule rather than the exception on campuses today," says Frank Carrington, a consultant for Security on Campus, a nonprofit group based in Gulph Mills, Pa. "And the way the universities treat it is to cover up and protect their image while a tremendous outrage is building...
...teaching fellow employees how to separate their trash for recycling. More than eight tons of high-grade ^ white paper are now recovered every month from our headquarters building in New York City. About 11,000 bottles and cans -- each redeemable for 5 cents -- are collected for We Can, a nonprofit organization that aids the city's homeless. "This is a serious program," says Green Team leader Laura Conboy, TIME's opeations manager. "It is going to be part of how we work here forever...
...free lift tickets, lodging and meals in return for speaking at an annual ski-industry conference. In addition, the $802 round-trip airfare for his wife Nancy was paid for by the American Ski Federation. The federation is a Washington-based lobbying arm for the ski industry -- not a nonprofit educational group as claimed on documents released by the White House...
...distinction between the two organizations is crucial. Federal law prohibits officials from accepting payment for travel, lodging and other expenses related to an official trip unless paid for by a charitable or educational organization. According to an official statement, the federation is a nonprofit trade group engaged in lobbying on "state and federal legislation." For such an organization to pay his wife's expenses, a White House counsel conceded, would be "tantamount to a gift...
...rest of the class organized a bake sale in their small village of Fagervik and raised enough money to buy four hectares (10 acres) of rain forest in Costa Rica's spectacular Monteverde Reserve. Their campaign gave birth to Barnens Regnskog, or the Children's Rain Forest, a nonprofit organization whose young supporters in several thousand Swedish schools have bought 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of jungle with the $1.5 million they have raised so far. Schoolchildren in Germany, Japan and the U.S. have followed suit. In appreciation, the Monteverde Conservation League, which maintains the reserve, has named part...