In the "Work Life" section of the Human Rights Campaign's Web site, under domestic partner benefits, the Campaign lists major companies and public sector employers who are on board.

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Since then he has been a council member of the Association's Section on Legal Practice and its Human Rights Institute.

BBC: The men in robes

The draft curriculum for geography does not contain references to climate change but a section called "Earth science" in the chemistry syllabus says 11- to 14-year-olds should be taught about "the production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate" and includes a section on "the efficacy of recycling".

BBC: Keep climate change lessons in curriculum, urge petitions

Credit the indomitable human spirit, as exemplified by the innovations chronicled in this issue, in an 85th-anniversary section supervised by Tom Post, assistant managing editor at FORBES. For most people at most times, life does get better, thanks to those who combine ideas with inventiveness or business pluck.

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