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...cholesterol numbers are drawn from an advertisement for the statin Zocor - a drug that the authors are careful not to dismiss out of hand, since it can indeed save lives, just not as many as its makers would like you to believe. The ad openly touts the 42% figure, which is based on a study in which 111 out of 2,221 people with heart disease who used Zocor later died of a heart attack. In a control group of heart patients who used a placebo, 189 out of 2,223 died. So the fact is there were indeed...
...enemy. Anything waged against a shapeless, intangible noun can never truly be won - President Clinton's drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey said as much in 1996. And yet, within the past 40 years, the U.S. government has spent over $2.5 trillion dollars fighting the War on Drugs. Despite the ad campaigns, increased incarceration rates and a crackdown on smuggling, the number of illicit drug users in America has risen over the years and now sits at 19.9 million Americans. And a large portion of their supply makes its way into the country through Mexico...
...Angeles Police Department's 1983 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) school lecture program, grew into a national phenomenon that, by 2003, cost $230 million and involved 50,000 police officers. Partnership for a Drug-Free America launched a similarly memorable campaign in 1987 with an abrasive television ad featuring a hot skillet, a raw egg, and the phrase, "This is your brain on drugs...
...continue as the free repository of all information. As a Database of Everything, it is the crowning achievement of civilization. And I absolutely believe that it's possible for certain kinds of low-overhead content producers to eke out a living here, attracting enough audience to generate modest ad revenue. So far, this has worked best for curators, scavengers and commentators - the three pillars of the Temple of Blog - and others who purvey short-form stuff...
...program. “I’m not silly enough to expect this to be downloaded by grandmothers or non-technical people. I just want to draw attention to the issue,” said Soghoian. According to Soghoian, Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia is currently lobbying for ad-tracking to become an opt-in program, meaning that Internet users would have to consent to having their activity monitored by advertising companies. At present, internet privacy restrictions resemble those for telemarketers, for which the Federal Communications Commission has allowed people to opt out of receiving solicitation calls...