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...year, the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company similarly redesigned its Web site to include a section on smoking and health hazards, and Tommy Payne, director of R.J. Reynolds, announced two weeks ago that his company planned to follow suit. Previously, Philip Morris had only gone so far as to claim that smoking may be a "causal factor" in certain diseases, and many commentators now say that the company has taken a radical step simply by changing a few words...
...smoking in all public areas in 1997, including bars and taverns, and with similar legislation in Massachusetts pending, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to jump on the bandwagon of public denunciation--even if such denunciation means appearing hypocritical. If confronted, any executive from a tobacco company could simply claim to have the facts in his favor: "we have admitted that smoking causes cancer, what else do you expect us to do?" And surprisingly, few would realistically respond, "stop producing cigarettes." Is that because the American business ethic is still stronger than the health ethic? No, it just means that...
Candidate Statement: "I was one of only three councillors that voted not to extend the city manager's contract. There are some candidates that claim to be actively against uncontrolled development or profess concern about the lack of open space but continue to support the city manager...
...Washington theme while at the same time burnishing his centrist credentials by affirming his tolerance for pro-choice positions within the GOP and for gay rights. Steve Forbes basked in the fact that his flat tax had become something of a conventional wisdom among Republicans, Gary Bauer tried to claim the Buchanan legacy as the choice of the blue-collar conservative, while Senator Orrin Hatch and Alan Keyes struggled to find signature issues that could register a bump in the polls. In the end, the forum may have worked best for McCain - Bush's war chest was the prevailing concern...
Just when you thought you'd heard just about everything about gene research - scientists have supposedly isolated every predisposition from breast cancer to sugar addiction - a group of California doctors claim to have found the DNA strand responsible for the industrialized world's number one killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice...