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...visit our campus. This sort of snobbery is also evident at Harvard during debates about politics—remember the fake IQ charts that showed dumb people vote for Bush—or any sort of moral issue—witness what happens if some poor soul tries to cite the Bible in an any argument over anything...
States are in charge of public health, with help from local officials. That is great news if you live in a place like Seattle, Los Angeles or New York City--places that health experts cite as relatively well prepared. Others may want to contact their officials and ask what they are doing...
Publishers are, however, divided. Fearing piracy, some cite the scale, ease, and impunity at which copyrighted music and movies have been transacted across the Internet. Google, for its part, has set the following rule for the digitization process: publishers can tell it which books not to scan at all, similar to how web site owners can be left out of search engine indexes...
...management failure and less than 24 hours after TIME.com reported he had padded his résumé. One instance: in 2002, when he was nominated as FEMA's deputy director, documents Brown submitted for his Senate confirmation hearing--which lasted all of 42 minutes--led Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman to cite the nominee's "useful experience ... as assistant city manager in Edmond [Okla.], with responsibility for police, fire and emergency services." But according to Brown's former boss, then city manager Bill Dashner, as well as current Edmond officials, that job description was overblown. "He was my administrative assistant," Dashner says...
...companies' typical response to complaints about the price of prescription drugs is to cite their huge research and development costs. This amounts, Angell writes, to a veiled threat: We make these drugs that save and improve your life - don't whine that they should be cheaper, because if they were we couldn't keep discovering new ones. But Angell argues that the industry not only exaggerates the costs of bringing drugs to market but spends much more on marketing and administration than on research, which it prefers to leave to government-funded scientists, intervening only when it smells a buck...