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...Others have turned to traditional grassroots efforts, including projects to ban soda from school cafeterias and reduce the amount of direct junk-food advertising available on TV. These efforts are noble in intent, but lack the essential incentive so critical to the decision-making processes of the average American: the prospect of cold, hard cash. The easiest way to get Americans to lose weight is to offer a $1,000 tax credit to adults who sustain a BMI between 18.5 and 25—the range considered to be healthy by most medical professionals...
...Zealand are currently the only counties that do not ban drug companies from directly advertising their products to consumers. The Food and Drug Administration loosened pharmaceutical advertising restrictions in 1997, and pharmaceutical research companies now spend $4.8 billion per year on DTCA...
...decisions regarding medical treatment," including terminating "life-sustaining treatment." The parents wanted to clone Dolly by taking a healthy cell from her body and inserting it into an embryo whose genetic material had been removed. The case hinged on a single question: Did the state's ban on such cloning violate the constitutional rights of Dolly and her parents? "You do not need to arrive at a definitive conclusion," Obama advised in the five-page exam. "Instead, make the strongest possible argument for each claim. Be sure to consider the possibility that Futura's ban on cloning does in fact...
...Today, the church appears willing to overlook some of the more esoteric elements of Murillo's faith, having gained a presidential couple that publically embraces the Church's leadership, and shares its conservative social values including a ban on abortion...
...also hungry," says Chauke. "We need to be paid in foreign currency because every commodity is being imported." A senior nurse at the local district hospital said that the number of children admitted with severe malnutrition increased from 10 in March to 40 by the end of July. "The ban by the government on humanitarian agencies shifted the burden on us greatly," she told TIME, speaking on condition of anonymity...