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...with two or more teachers throughout their high school careers. This program creates an informal advising system for students towards the school’s goal of “connection, communication, and community,” Saheed said. Cambridge schools have however seen significant increases in student tobacco use from 38 incidents in the 2004-2005 school year to 105 the following year, the subcommittee reported. The committee attributed this trend to stricter infraction reporting on campus. There was also a dramatic increase in the number of students cutting class, a perennial problem at CRLS, which committee members said...
...stock market, as in life, no good deed goes unpunished. Take the case of socially responsible investing (SRI). There are 79 stock funds that practice the style, which typically involves screening companies for stellar environmental and labor practices while shirking sin sectors like tobacco, booze and gambling. Sounds good, right? Yet SRI funds are often mediocre performers, partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same...
...than in any European country, yet America is one of the few Western countries that uses its criminal justice system to punish citizens who prefer marijuana to martinis. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to have caused an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. The short-term health effects of marijuana are inconsequential compared to the long-term effects of criminal records. Unfortunately, marijuana represents the counterculture to many Americans. In subsidizing the prejudices of culture warriors, the U.S. government is subsidizing organized crime. The drug war’s distortion of immutable laws...