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...getting entangled in one of the most emotional issues of all: abortion. AT&T has become embroiled because of its annual donations to Planned Parenthood, which amounted to $50,000 last year. The company decided in March to stop funding the group, after 25 years of support, because the nonprofit group's "political advocacy" of abortion had grown. But at AT&T's annual meeting in Los Angeles last week, antiabortion shareholders lost a resolution that would have forbidden the telecommunications giant to give money to organizations "that endorse, counsel or perform abortions...
...dilapidated garage in New York City's South Bronx would not be most people's idea of an office. But for Michael Schedler and his partners in Bronx 2000, a nonprofit development corporation, such an unlikely site became the first home eight years ago for a booming business: the R2B2 recycling plant...
...sponsor of the hamster hunt was Earthwatch, a nonprofit organization conceived in the early 1970s by Brian Rosborough, a lawyer. Since scientists always need more manpower for their studies and never have enough money, Rosborough reasoned that they would welcome paying "Earth patriots" eager to spend a week or two on scholarly expeditions in remote places. At first Earthwatch concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head...
...without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many cable operators have agreed to connect noncable schools gratis if they sign up for CNN's program. More than 7,500 schools have enrolled thus far, though only half of them are actually using the show in classes...
...Yorkers take a perverse pride in their legendary brusqueness. But local leaders are beginning to be worried that the city's surly citizens are hurting tourism, a major industry. Herb Rickman, president of New York Pride, a nonprofit promoter of civic activism, says surveys show that visitors increasingly cite such enduring city icons as crabby cabbies and snarling salesclerks as serious arguments against a return visit. Rickman's response: the Civility Campaign, an effort to make New Yorkers a little more pleasant...