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...protections and regulations, especially under the guise of cost-effectiveness. Callous disregard for public safety is not new; in 1982, for example, the Reagan administration stopped the Department of Health and Human Services from issuing warnings that aspirin could cause Reye Syndrome if given to children with flu or chicken pox infections. Reye Syndrome caused about 360 deaths per year, as well as brain damage to many survivors, but the administration met privately with aspirin manufacturers who feared losses of $100 million, and was able to block warnings for three years. Another example is the administration's fight to block...
...personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
Nowhere else are those steaks (served rare, chicken-fried, chopped or charbroiled) so affordable for so many as in the U.S., whose farms and slaughterhouses produce an average of 3,700 calories a day for every man, woman and child -- a third more than the recommended daily allowance for men and twice that for women. With the price of beef falling, Americans last year ate nearly 64 lbs. per person -- the highest consumption level in five years -- and that number is expected to increase again this year. No wonder America has become the fat Polynesian prince of the world...
...says Natalie Tolbert, 26, to a friend who has just ordered chicken nuggets, waffle fries, a soft drink and a brownie from an Atlanta fast-food joint. "You're pleasantly plump." More and more Americans are couching their excess in euphemism these days, and they're not necessarily ashamed of it. "Obviously I don't care," says Tolbert, gesturing to her ample figure and equally ample lunch. "I don't care because I find most men I go out with like a woman with some meat on her body...
...defense fund had other ideas. Gifford says fast food places bring "traffic, litter and negative impact on public safety and good." The group had defeated a bid by Boston Chicken to locate a franchise in the Square the year before...