The university this week launched a new safe taxi scheme, which allows students who do not have enough money to get home from nights out during term time to use their matriculation card and signature as a deposit for the fare.
That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.
One of those companies was Avon, who, shortly thereafter, contacted me with a request to refute some of the charges in the paper, written by Amy Lubitow and Mia Davis, a Portland State University professor and Organizing Director of the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, respectively.
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"We do not consider these treatments safe, " says Eric Fombonne, a child psychiatrist at McGill University.
University president Robert Barchi's job appeared to be safe after getting a public nod of support from the school's board of governors.
The university later issued a statement to say the campus is now safe but urged students to "remain vigilant".
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"Buy something that is known to have been privately owned before the 20th century and you are probably safe, " says Patty Gerstenblith, an archeologist and law professor at DePaul University.
The university's Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health suggested that promoting safe sun exposure and access to green areas during the summer months, including in the north of Scotland, would be a good strategy.
Some devices "haven't been as safe as they should be, " says David Waters, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
And with recent natural catastrophes proving atomic energy isn't what you'd call 'safe, ' it's a good thing the researchers down at the RMIT University in Melbourne have been hard at work figuring out how to turn you into a self-sustained energy source.
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Steve Royle, the director of rowing at Oxford University Boat Club, said the local boating club had assessed the conditions as safe.
After the shooting at Northern Illinois University last week, students on campuses across the country are wondering whether they are safe.
Researchers from Warwick University, writing in the British Journal of Psychology, said that dogs gave people a safe topic of conversation with which to break the ice with a stranger.
Stars offer something of a safe bet in an otherwise unpredictable industry, according to Arthur De Vany, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California, Irvine.
Sociologist Janet Holland, from South Bank University, who has researched teenager sexual behaviour, said young girls had become aware of the importance of safe sex during the Aids campaigns of the late eighties.
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