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...asked. This is the start of the nation's first state- approved program for providing addicts with clean needles in the hope of curtailing the spread of AIDS. Under the two-year pilot project, an addict can swap a used needle for a new one, supplied by the nonprofit Life Foundation, up to five times a day, five days a week...
L.A.P.D. records, which do not list excessive-force complaints separately, show an overall drop in claims and lawsuits against the 7,900-man force since 1985. But statistics from the Police Misconduct Lawyers Referral Service, a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group that counsels police-abuse victims, suggest the department's figures are misleading. The group's executive director, Karol Heppe, says the agency receives more than 200 police-abuse and rights-violation complaints each month. L.A.P.D. spokesmen concede that the department's reputation for no-nonsense law enforcement is justified. But they deny charges of widespread overaggressiveness or brutality...
...such products as toilet paper, light bulbs, laundry cleaners and facial tissues that meet the criteria established by a panel of scientists. "Our objective is to help American consumers vote with their pocketbooks on environmental issues," says former Earth Day chairman Denis Hayes, who is chief executive of the nonprofit, Washington-based Green Seal project...
Meanwhile, Green Cross, a nonprofit subsidiary of Scientific Certification Systems of Oakland is working with four national supermarket chains and manufacturers to certify products that meet high standards for recyclability. The cross will appear for the first time in July. Manufacturers seeking the Green Seal or the Green Cross will have to pay fees to cover the cost of analyzing their products, and Green Seal will levy an annual licensing fee. Can the two ecologos happily coexist in a green world? There may not be room for both, say experts. Ultimately the fittest will survive...
...hallway rumors, infighting, standoffs, bluffs and clashes between the fiercely independent editor and his predecessor, Gilbert Grosvenor, now president and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Scion of the founding family, Grosvenor follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, in running the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution...