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...Proponents Say: Marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol. Plus, through its sale, tax money could go toward drug education and general state revenue. Also, it has great benefit as a holistic medical alternative to ease chronic pain...
...When Harvard initially purchased the forest stake, timber made up roughly 10 percent of the University’s endowment. HMC has reduced its timber holdings in recent years, selling two-thirds of its approximately 1.3 million acre global forest holdings. Before the announcement of yesterday’s sale, Harvard was the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand. “We think that timber is quite attractive to what other asset classes have to offer,” then-HMC president Jack R. Meyer told The Crimson in 2004, a year before he left Harvard to launch...
...Proponents Say: A tax should be levied on cigarettes and tobacco products to provide revenue from their sale; cigarette smoke is a hazard to people who work in places where smoking is currently common and should be banned; revenue from a 1998 tobacco lawsuit should go toward health care programs and education...
...Immigrant Makes Good collection. Today, Tahari, 54, is the CEO of the $500 million Elie Tahari sportswear business. It's one of Seventh Avenue's most successful brands, with more than 600 points of sale in the U.S., including upscale department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. At the opening of Bloomingdale's in San Francisco last month, Tahari says, the label was the top vendor, outselling Ralph Lauren by 30% in the first two weeks...
...save an endangered tree, put it up for sale.And whatever you do, don't tell anyone where it is. That's how an Australian consortium is protecting the Wollemi pine tree, a rare species that dates back to the era of dinosaurs. Fewer than 100 full-grown trees remain, and by selling plants grown from their cuttings, Wollemi Pine International hopes to raise funds for preservation and stop the poachers who could destroy the species forever...