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...Phuket, Thailand. The company will also build an orphanage in each country and secure financing for the psychological care of youngsters there. "We want to show that we feel connected to these countries in which we have been active for decades," says ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz. British American Tobacco's Sri Lankan division, Ceylon Tobacco Company, has pledged to rebuild a destroyed village, too. British American Tobacco plans to announce a substantial cash contribution to the relief drive this week. Companies whose products or services are desperately needed in affected countries - from drugmakers to utility companies - have come forward with...
...whole has grown just 22%, according to fund tracker Lipper. But a recent study by environmentalist Paul Hawken suggests investors might be getting more than they bargained for. Hawken, who runs the Natural Capital Institute in San Francisco, found socially responsible funds owning companies like Iraq-entangled Halliburton, tobacco-products maker Altria and weapons manufacturer Raytheon...
...fared better than the vast majority of large-cap blended funds over the past five years (although it has fallen behind the pack recently). Ariel Fund, a small-cap value fund, isn't nearly so stringent about screening but does exclude companies that focus on making or selling tobacco, generating nuclear energy or manufacturing handguns. The ultracheap Vanguard Calvert Social Index makes a decent core holding, Parnassus Equity Income looks for stand-up corporate citizens while buying stocks that pay high dividends, and Pax World Balanced gives investors exposure to bonds as well as stocks. So go ahead, make...
...study published to great fanfare last March, the CDC announced that poor eating habits and inactivity were on track to become the No. 1 causes of preventable death in the U.S. by next year, surpassing even tobacco smoking. Well, someone at the agency miscalculated. The number of obesity-related deaths in 2000 was not 400,000, as the CDC reported, and may have been significantly lower. (Tobacco killed 435,000 people in 2000.) But even though the numbers may be off, the message stands: obesity is a major public-health threat in the U.S., and if it hasn...
What to do when any patient--child or adult--has hypertension varies from case to case, but some steps are obvious. Smoking, which is potentially lethal for everyone, is poison for the hypertensive. Tobacco accelerates heart rate and constricts blood vessels, just what you want to do if you're trying to make a hypertension problem worse but a lousy idea if you want to get well...