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...Chemical was asked to report on its management’s new initiatives for survivors of the 1984 chemical accident at a plant in Bhopal, India owned by Union Carbide—now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. The proposal said Dow Chemical has a “humanitarian responsibility” to address the disaster victims’ concerns, regardless of a lack of current liability...
Sodexho USA, which is a subsidiary of the Parisbased multinational Sodexho Alliance, employs more than 100,000 people, offering “a full range of outsourcing solutions...including food services, housekeeping, grounds keeping, plant operations and maintenance, and integrated facilities management.” According to its Campus Services homepage, the company is the biggest provider of college dining services in North America...
...medical applications of marijuana. “There is some research going on regarding medical marijuana, but it is limited,” said Shaffer. “Scientists need special permission from the government…The application process does not make it easy to study the plant...
...whether or not one believes that our current energy supply is detrimental to the weather, the effects of burning coal and oil are felt at home, and in our lungs, every day. The stuff that comes out of power plant smokestacks has contributed to make asthma one of the fastest growing childhood ailments in industrial and developing countries alike, and has also recently been linked to lung cancer. Here in Massachusetts, where five power plants burn thousands of tons of coal every year, the effects on surrounding communities are significant. A 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health...
...University also expanded its physical plant to 21.6 million square feet as it spent $410 million on 356 construction and renovation projects. While capital spending was down from last year’s $526 million total, Harvard moved forward in its efforts to establish an Allston campus by expanding its holdings there. In the last fiscal year Harvard acquired 104,000 square feet of land in Allston comprising five properties located among the University’s existing holdings...