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SONG is playing a chicken-and-egg game. Do Nerds become Nerds because of social ostracization, or do they suffer ostracization because of their nerdiness. SONG would claim the latter. A Nerd, as they tacitly define it (they never do so explicitly, preferring to keep membership wide open) is a lover of knowledge who suffers socially because...
That may provide some of the best news of the 1990s. As for the bad news, remember Chicken Little...
Winningest Products. Good things came in small sizes: Chicken McNuggets, Chrysler minivans, 3M's Post-it notes. Health was hot: Nike Air shoes, oat bran and Diet Coke. But old reliables stole the show: Waring blenders, fountain pens, Etch A Sketches, convertibles, suspenders and condoms...
...bipartisan effort to beef up the FDA's anemic annual budget by setting a floor level of $500 million, vs. the current total of $492 million. Their proposal would also provide the FDA with a single facility -- currently, it is spread across 22 buildings in Washington, from converted chicken coops to renovated Army barracks. Even regulated industries, fearing a loss of consumer confidence, are demanding a stronger FDA. The agency, as former FDA official Peter Barton Hutt puts it, "is a precious national resource, and we shouldn't squander...
...spent $5 million more than the $46 million Congress provided to seek a cure for the disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When an emergency comes along," says one FDA official...