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...last year, the idea got high-profile support from investors like Warren Buffett. But Berkeley's attack - he also slams accountants, "the shareholder's rights crowd" and media "wage slaves" for supporting the change - is part of a renewed push to keep the U.S. from adopting the IASB's stricter standards. "I'm very bemused by a guy who's running a stock exchange lashing out like this at his own customers," says IASB director of technical activities Kevin Stevenson, but "maybe this is the beginning of a more significant battle." Perhaps Berkeley's volley would have more credibility...
Boston is participating in an important state- and nation-wide effort to curb smoking in public places. Over 70 other cities and towns across Massachusetts already have strict anti-smoking legislation, and New York is expected to impose even stricter restrictions than Boston at a city council meeting on Wednesday. If all U.S. workplaces became smoke-free, according to a study published in Tobacco Control, over 175,000 smokers would quit and over 10 billion fewer cigarettes would be consumed every year...
...stricter workplace smoking restrictions should only be one part of a comprehensive program to cure the smoking epidemic. Boston should also raise cigarette taxes to New York’s level, which would both decrease the number of smokers as well as the number of cigarettes smokers consume. Preliminary data from the Big Apple indicates that increased cigarette sales in the surrounding areas and on the black market have not compensated for the decline of cigarette sales in the city itself...
...buildings in the study initially had lead, but the buildings in the Massachusetts city, which has stricter regulations against lead paint, were renovated to remove the substance...
Yale’s pro-divestment petition, pushed by the Yale Divest From Israel Campaign, alleges violations of the university’s own ethical investment policy—a policy stricter than that at Harvard and other rival universities. The campaign will pursue legal action if the administration ignores its petition, alumni spokesperson Rod Swenson said...