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Identity theft is soaring. The crime is up 79% from February 2002 and hit an estimated 7 million people in the past year, according to the research firm Gartner. How can you shield yourself? The Identity Theft Resource Center, a not-for-profit organization, suggests that consumers check their credit ratings annually from the credit-reporting bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Don't write your Social Security or driver's license number on checks, don't respond to suspicious e-mail requests, and go easy on yourself if you're victimized: fraudsters have hit everyone from Steven Spielberg to Tiger...
...James Davis was the chair of the council's Juvenile Justice committee, and was known throughout the country as a tireless advocate for youth. In 1990, he founded the not-for-profit "'Love Yourself' Stop the Violence" to fight guns, drugs, teen pregnancy and delinquency. In 1994, he convinced Toys R Us to remove 'look-alike' toy guns from its shelves after a spate of incidents in which police officers thought children were bearing real weapons. He then turned his attention to MTV, asking that violent and sexually explicit music videos be restricted...
Harvard Medical International (HMI), a not-for-profit corporation created to support the mission of Harvard Medical School overseas, has agreed to a six-month phase of planning with the government of Dubai...
...Primo factory in El Salvador, 5.000 workers, mostly young women, produce clothing for Harvard and other American colleges through Lands’ End. Conditions at Primo are, perhaps not entirely surprisingly, appalling. According to the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC), a not-for-profit independent sweatshop monitoring organization, workers at Primo face abuse from supervisors, forced and unpaid overtime and inadequate health treatment. Perhaps most egregiously, Primo systematically blacklists workers it suspects to be or have been involved with a union...
...confused about what a credit union is, you're not alone. The institutions, which date to the mid-1800s, took off during the Great Depression as not-for-profit, tax-exempt organizations through which workers in a company could pool their savings to qualify for loans for cars and other big-ticket items. About 10,000 exist today. The Navy's is the nation's largest, with 1.25 million members, while some have fewer than 500 members. Roughly 60% of credit unions are federally chartered (the rest have state charters) and supervised by the National Credit Union Administration. Nearly...