Word: barres
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...Washington, D.C., leg of his trip, Borat does corral a few unwary dignitaries for Ali G.-type teasing. With forced gentility, former Congressman Bob Barr listens to Borat's generous offer of homemade cheese - his wife "makes it from milk from her tit." And in a discussion of family values with perennial G.O.P. candidate Alan Keyes, Borat asks, with astonished indignation, "Are you telling me that that man who tried to put a rubber fist in my annus [anus] was a homosexual...
...Plan B is a synthetic form of progesterone, a hormone commonly used in birth-control pills, and it works by by preventing ovulation, preventing fertilization of the egg, or stopping a fertilized egg from lodging in the uterus. The FDA first approved Plan B, now owned by Delaware's Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., for use with a prescription in 1999, but the controversy erupted in 2003. That's when FDA officials rejected the recommendation of their scientific advisers and refused to grant Plan B approval for over-the-counter use. The acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research...
...fact, the FDA considered exactly the same studies when it approved the drug Thursday as it did when it denied the drug over-the-counter sales in 2003. The difference? When Barr resubmitted the application for over-the-counter approval, it limited its request to those patients 16 and older. (A Barr spokeswoman tells TIME it was hard to recruit many girls aged 15 and younger for the kind of studies the FDA wanted, since young teens make up such a small segment of the population needing emergency contraception.) The decision to limit over-the-counter sales to women...
...wall of the uterus, resulting in what anti--abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In any case, it can do nothing to end an existing pregnancy. About 1.3 million prescriptions for Plan B were filled last year, generating $30 million in revenue for its manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals. Now that Wal-Mart has agreed to stock it, so will every major pharmacy chain in the country...
...balloon in its Thanksgiving Day parade. The majority of the hometown retailers owned by May, including Marshall Field's, will be converted to the Macy's nameplate this fall, among them Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Filene's in Boston; Strawbridge's in Philadelphia; Foley's in Houston; Famous-Barr in St. Louis, Mo.; and Robinsons-May in Southern California. Federated has already renamed South Florida's Burdine's, Bon Marché in the Northwest, Rich's in Atlanta and Lazarus in Ohio. Only May's Lord & Taylor chain has retained its name--and it is up for sale...