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...results of a government survey released on Sept. 8, what the Japanese most wanted from their leaders were medical and pension reform, better elderly care and more jobs. A commitment to defense and regional security was low on the list, lagging even behind worries over Japan's declining birth rate. Abe didn't appear to sense the country's preoccupation with bread-and-butter economic issues. Even though Japan has finally crept out of recession, the PM failed to address a perception that only corporate fat cats were profiting from the recovery. On July 29, the public delivered its verdict...
...true that no cadavers have been labeled killed by DBCP, scientific bodies from the National Academy of Sciences to the World Health Organization have classified dozens of pesticides as powerful animal carcinogens that are likely to cause cancer in humans. Human studies have found that pesticides also cause birth defects in farmworkers, as well as nerve damage and genetic mutations. And the 6 billion lbs. of these poisons we add to the environment each year contaminate our lakes, rivers and lives as well. Al Meyerhoff (Past Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Public Health Program), STUDIO CITY, CALIF...
...Following The Body Shop's lead, major corporations everywhere are now seeing green. "They were one of the first companies to have a values report," says Fairley. "Back then, companies didn't have values reports, they had balance sheets." But the birth of ethical business was not an easy one. Roddick's critics accused her ethics-over-profits stance of being nothing more than a marketing gimmick. And the one-time Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year had an uncomfortable relationship with the whole business of big business: she once referred to financiers as "dinosaurs in pin-stripes...
...women in the intervention group breast-fed significantly longer than women in the control group: at three months, 73% of the intervention group was breast-feeding, compared with 60% of the control group, and the number of women breast-feeding exclusively was seven times higher. By a year after birth, rates of breast-feeding had dropped across the board; but still, 20% of the intervention group was breast-feeding versus 11% of the controls...
Perhaps we can forgive Adamson for attempting to stake out his own artistic ground at play's end, and choosing a burial plot for that purpose. But in so doing he abandons the Almodóvarian spirit, which always favors birth over death. In this adaptation's postmodern flux, Almodóvar's unique voice, upbeat even amid the direst human tragedies, ultimately goes missing. Which is a shame. After all, it's his voice, and the way from hurt to healing it describes, that we most want to hear...