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Then I came across a new report from the Federal Government: Uncle Sam's annual attempt to paint a broad statistical portrait of the nation's young people. In long rows of little numbers printed on page after page of tables, this report told a different story from that of either the woe bearers or the myth busters...
...listened, but more pushed forward, disrupting the attempt at order. During their last candy mission, someone told me, one of their hosts beat the children away with a belt...
...land ruled by the dollar bill, it's perfectly fine to advertise to customers and attempt to take them for all they're worth. Everyone knows that marketing - the ads, commercials, T-shirts and arthritis talks in the backs of diners - is designed to get money from customers. The conventional lie is that marketing informs. Maybe it does, peripherally. It's really done to persuade. But is it fine to persuade patients, so you can squeeze more money from them? Is it fine to scare patients into tests and iffy treatments, to persuade people who aren't sick...
...Europe over the deployment of Sarkozy's wife, Cécilia, as an emissary to Libya twice in the last ten days of negotiations, as well as her presence on the presidential plane and on the Sofia tarmac with the returning Bulgarians. Critics have claimed the move was an attempt to cast France's First Lady into a quasi-official, freelancing diplomatic role to fit her husband's political objectives. However, Elysée officials note Madame Sarkozy was accompanied with senior officials who handled negotiations, and that if her role was either official or visible in nature...
...grant approval of something that is clearly bad for people, said Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming, the panel's top Republican. "We know that there is no such thing as a safe cigarette," Enzi said in a release. "Proposals to have FDA regulate tobacco are a misguided attempt to force a deadly product into the regulatory structure developed for drugs and devices - products which do have health benefits." Enzi Thursday introduced his own legislation to "cap and trade" tobacco products in order to shrink U.S. use of tobacco products to 2% of the population over 20 years...