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Single-sex housing was the last barrier left. Harvard had always stood in the vanguard of higher education with its Radcliffe offshoot. But after peer institutions Yale and Princeton officially announced plans to go co-ed in 1968, Harvard students were behind...
...sell their cars. "If they can compete on price, Ford and Nissan will likely start exporting" to America within a decade, predicts Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii who researches China's auto industry. The Cherys you'll soon see in car lots could be the vanguard for Detroit's own made-in-China cars. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing
...turn to Russia for support. For all the external pressure on Yushchenko, he is already fully aware of one of democracy's sometimes uncomfortable iron laws: the people who put you in power can take you out, too. Back in Ukraine, Pora and the other groups that formed the vanguard of the orange revolution will be watching their President carefully. The Pora coalition is thinking of turning itself into a political party or bloc, says political activist Gusak. He is confident Yushchenko will not let them down. "But if his team starts awarding each other state property and Yushchenko fails...
...vanguard is Tiger Trails, tel: (61?3) 6234 3931, a tour company that offers guided walks through the Tarkine's interior. "Nature-based tourism is part of a new generation of thinking, offering another option for these forests where industry and conservation can work together," says Mike Thomas, a member of Tasmania's Doctors for Forests lobby group and designer of a spectacular Tiger Trails walk that takes trekkers though a Tarkine river gorge that is home to the forest's threatened myrtle trees...
...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 a little money--and feel good while...