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...increase its sales of water with Ethos’ marketing campaign, which includes brochures and signs in its stores. Considering that Starbucks has 4,666 stores in the U.S. (as of April) and charges $1.80 per bottle—for an approximate $1 profit (Starbucks wouldn’t confirm this amount)—the corporation is set to make far more in profit from Ethos than what it has promised to donate...
...there was a visible reminder of the tensions between the United States and the world body: John R. Bolton, the biting critic of Turtle Bay bureaucracy who was installed by Bush as his U.N. ambassador during the congressional recess after the Senate did not act to confirm him, took a seat behind the president...
...former political science professor at the University through the '70s and '80s, says that Brown "was not on the faculty." As for the honor of "Outstanding Political Science Professor," Johnson says, "I spoke with the department chair yesterday and he's not aware of it." Johnson could not confirm that Brown made the Dean's list or was an "Outstanding Political Science Senior," as is stated on his online profile...
...First, labeling the evidence as "indisputable" is a stretch. When taking drug tests, athletes submit two urine samples. To confirm a positive result, both tests must detect banned substances. France's National Laboratory for Drug Detection could test only the remaining, frozen B samples from six years ago. "For EPO, it has happened frequently that the A sample is not confirmed in the B sample," says Christiane Ayotte, a doping expert at the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal. Armstrong's 1999 and 2000 victories still stand, as do his five other wins, scored after testing...
...commission has lashed out at the Bush Administration for failing to address publicly claims that the panel ignored a tip that Atta had been flagged in the U.S. as a terrorist well before he led the 2001 attacks. Former chairman Tom Kean told TIME that the White House should confirm whether, right after 9/11, Congressman Curt Weldon handed then Deputy National Security Adviser Steven Hadley a 1999 Pentagon chart pegging Atta as a member of al-Qaeda. Weldon makes the allegation in a book he published this summer and claims the commission failed to scrutinize a Pentagon data-mining program...