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...sharp contrast to countries like Germany, where the government holds companies to strict standards for ingredients and manufacturing. Experts say that while the top U.S. and European manufacturers pay close attention to the safety, effectiveness and consistency of their products, parts of the industry resemble a Wild West boomtown, where some 800 lightly regulated U.S. companies compete ferociously with fly-by-night hucksters. "When you open a bottle of nutritional supplements, you don't know what's inside," says Jeffrey Delafuente, a pharmacy professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "There may be some ingredients not listed...
...Didn't Die: When the oil refinery closed down in 1982, this boomtown went bust--22,000 of its 30,000 residents moved away, J.C. Penney and other retailers shut down, and arsonists torched parts of downtown. But in 1986 it joined the Main Street program, began renovating 200 buildings and cashed in on the "heritage tourism" craze (Okmulgee is the capital of the Muskogee Indian Nation...
...BOOMTOWN BEANTOWN...
...what Buckhead most vividly dramatizes, perhaps, is the split down the center of the city between Atlanta and Georgia. For if to the rest of the state the capital seems an anomalous Northern transplant (more than half its residents, after all, come from somewhere else), to the boomtown developers in the glass-walled towers the rest of the state seems dangerously slow and Southern...
...what exactly was America buying into with such enthusiasm last week? The Internet, of course, that boomtown of the wired world. "The Internet has gone to Main Street," said analyst Kathleen Smith of Renaissance Capital, a Connecticut firm that evaluates initial public offerings for institutional investors. Netscape was "the hottest deal we've ever seen. Friends we never thought we had were calling us, asking us how they could buy shares...