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...precedent-setting move, Harvard is considering divesting its stock holdings in two major U.S. tobacco companies...
...drive to divest from tobacco companiesseems likely to rekindle the debate about thebenefits of divestment. Harvard and other criticsof divestment have argued that in most cases, abetter alternative is constructive engagement, bywhich the University deliberately maintains itsstock to put pressure on companies...
...ACSR has challenged that account. Inits report to the CCSR, it cited World HealthOrganization statistics that attribute 2.5 milliondeaths each year worldwide to tobacco...
...cluck over the spectacle of Giamatti's descent from academic grandeur to the commercial muck of professional sports. If there is a life for former Ivy League presidents, it should be conducted as unobtrusively as possible in a reputable embassy or blue-chip foundation. At the other extreme, certain tobacco-chewing, spit-on-the-hands, belly-up-to-the-bar baseball types wonder what in the hell a gabby professor is doing running a league and, next year, the whole show. Oh, yeah, Giamatti. Whattid he ever...
That by no means lessens the seriousness of the threat, especially at high levels. In addition, medical experts say, tobacco smoke increases the risk by attracting radon particles, allowing them to lodge easily in the lungs. Even if the number of radon cancer deaths is 5,000, says the EPA, the gas is still "among the worst health risks in this country...