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...John M. Benson, an author of the paper, advised that proponents of health care reform persuade the public by focusing on individual impact of legislation in keeping with the study...
Those debating health care “need to tell people somehow how the reforms will affect them so they can better judge what their opinion will be,” said Benson, who is a research associate at the School of Public Health. He encouraged both supporters and opponents of the bill to focus the discussion on aspects that will realistically influence the American public...
Instead, the pseudoephedrine restrictions turned out to be a boon for a Mexican drug cartel that was just then coming to prominence. La Familia Michoacana, named for its base in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, not only revived the meth market, "they elevated it," says Rodney Benson, special agent in charge in Atlanta for the Drug Enforcement Administration. This week the DEA led a campaign that saw the arrests of more than 300 alleged meth traffickers in the U.S., all allegedly tied to La Familia. It is considered the largest roundup ever of Mexican cartel operatives...
...Familia has established a well organized and well enforced distribution system in its key U.S. markets, the sort of rural and suburban communities where meth has taken greatest hold in the U.S. "They set up in houses in middle-class suburbs," says Benson. "The only thing missing is the white picket fences." Those homes, where agents usually find large caches of automatic rifles and pistols, can also be scenes of violent kidnappings, beatings and murders. Last year a man abducted and badly beaten by Mexican traffickers because he owed them money was rescued by police in an Atlanta suburb just...
...Germany will not tolerate Nazi symbols for a couple of generations. Simply seeing the swastika causes most Germans terrible anguish. Besides, why should public display of a symbol be legally permitted when the party it stands for is verboten? Alan Benson, BERLIN...