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Farmers like Liu sell to small-scale companies--often family-run businesses--that process the intestines into crude heparin, which in turn becomes the key ingredient for the heparin that Baxter and other major drug firms sell worldwide. SPL's CEO, David Strunce, told Congress last spring that the raw material comes from "government-regulated slaughterhouses." But that regulation, farmers in Jiangsu told TIME, is haphazard at best. And if the slaughterhouses are haphazardly regulated, the small heparin-processing businesses--hundreds of them across the country--are virtually unregulated. "We haven't ever had the government come and inspect...
...Changzhou says it relies on two companies--its joint-venture partner, Changzhou Techpool, as well as a Hangzhou-based firm, Ruihua Biomedical Products Co.--to buy its crude heparin. Strunce has described them as meticulous in ensuring the quality of the crude heparin they buy for SPL. But several small suppliers told TIME they have sold directly to SPL or have been approached by the company, looking for product. And when FDA inspectors showed up in Hangzhou this year, after reports of a spike in deaths and illness, Ruihua Biomedical stiff-armed the investigators. It refused to let them inspect...
...crude to expect progress toward peace (or pacifism) from yesterday’s modest tribute to our soldiers. But it should be clear that to combine this holiday’s solemn, sometimes effusive remembrance with active, objective consideration of war—and the hope for the future reduction of its dire consequences—does not in any way diminish the respect that is due to the veteran. If anything, it assigns greater importance to the historical and political significance of war and the military...
...Augie’s parents add a meaningful amount of tenderness to the story, and “Role Models” surprises with its insight into the realities of adult-child relationships. Quick-fire dialogue also balances out the movie’s tendency toward broad and crude humor. Rudd’s character supplies a number of clever quips, and his highly referential, sarcastic style provides ample laughs. Ronnie is also given a number of good lines—most memorably his insistence that all white people be referred to as “Ben Affleck...
...bombs. Jackson is featured in a slightly lighter role than audience members may be used to, but the real comedy comes from Mac, who takes a limited character to the extreme. Mac impeccably delivers uncouth lines almost every two minutes, destining them for imitation in the future. Though crude comedy is decidedly less-valued in critical circles, there is no denying that it makes you laugh. “Soul Men” is dedicated to both Mac and Isaac Hayes, who makes a cameo in the film and died a day after Mac. A tribute to Mac rolls throughout...