Word: canadians
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...Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast last week in which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There...
While there is no doubt that counterfeit and adulterated medicines--some potentially injurious, possibly even lethal--are sold over the Internet by unscrupulous vendors, a TIME investigation suggests the FDA'S actions against Canadian imports have been part of a concerted campaign to simultaneously discredit its counterpart agency in Canada, provoke fear among American consumers who buy their drugs there, blunt an exploding political movement among local and state governments to begin wholesale drug buys in Canada and ultimately preserve the inflated prices charged U.S. consumers and taxpayers...
...State of the Union address last week, President Bush hailed the passage of the Medicare bill that will give seniors "the modern medicine they deserve" and touted the new drug-discount card that the Administration says will save them 10% to 25% on pharmaceuticals. The even larger Canadian discounts, meanwhile, have attracted a popular passion that is shared by politicians on both sides of the aisle. G.O.P. Congressman Dan Burton--who represents Indiana, where drug giant Eli Lilly employs thousands of voters--has accused the industry of "raping the American people." In the Democratic presidential debate last week, Senator...
...drive within the U.S. to shut down the Canadian pipeline has coincided with a campaign by drugmakers to pressure the Canadian government to cut off drug sales to the U.S. At the same time, the big U.S. drug companies have warned Canadian pharmacies that their supplies of all prescription drugs will be halted if they sell to U.S. citizens, thereby threatening to deprive Canadian citizens of access to drugs. Explaining the industry's opposition to American purchases of Canadian drugs, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) told TIME, "The FDA has said consistently and repeatedly...
...American government like the Canadian government did have to ability to buy drugs in mass quantities all along and still does have the ability to buy for veterans. With the new Medicare, Congress sold the right to buy in mass quantities to the Drug Companies along with their souls. Cathy Melvin East Madison, Maine...