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...cancer awareness since 1992--has been hijacked for marketing purposes, a phenomenon that some call pink washing. Last year the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the nation's largest private charity focusing on breast cancer, urged consumers to start asking questions like how much of the money they spend on pink purchases will actually go to charity, what kind of activities does the charity support and what has its record been? In the same spirit, Breast Cancer Action (BCA), a grass-roots advocacy organization based in San Francisco, offers a consumer-education program and website called Think Before...
...firm is taking its smell sense even closer to consumers and hoping to cash in on the $8.3 billion Americans already spend annually on air fresheners, candles and scented plug-ins. In August, ScentAir began offering a small home version of its smell machine for $30 a month. It comes with scent choices like eucalyptus mint, citrus musk and lavender with ylang-ylang, a derivative of a south Asian evergreen tree said to have aromatherapeutic benefits. "By comparison," says Van Epps, "plug-ins scream Grandma's bathroom aerosol...
...more criticisms will emerge with further scrutiny. While we are not suggesting that there should be more requirements, the faculty should closely examine the balance of requirements carefully, as we ourselves will in the coming months.Ultimately, Harvard students must graduate being able to understand the issues that they will spend their lives grappling with as citizens and leaders of the world. There is no doubt that over time the precise set of issues that are most relevant will change, but the framework for education advanced in this review—more than any previous one—accommodates our rapidly...
...long as some designers continue to include fur in their collections, caring people will speak out. Animals raised for their fur spend their entire lives confined to tiny, filthy cages, surrounded by their own waste, before being poisoned, gassed, strangled, or electrocuted. Investigations into the fur trade in China—the world’s largest supplier of fur—found fur farmers beating animals with metal rods, skinning them alive and even slaughtering dogs, and cats for their pelts. Furthermore, animals are treated exactly the same miserable way whether their skins are eventually used...
...behind a fake plant, or the waiter to slip a listening device under the sugar bowl. Instead of discussing how Iran could avoid a nuclear crisis with the West, we talked about how we could avoid being labeled enemies of the state. Who cares about uranium enrichment when you spend your days and nights fretting over whether you're a potential target of arrest? "Do you think you're followed?" he asked, barely audible over the air-conditioning. I had to stop crunching on a butter cookie to hear him. "Hmm, maybe? But I don't think so," I said...