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...pigs in unsafe drug trials - such allegations have led to ongoing lawsuits seeking more than $9 billion against Pfizer in Nigeria. (Pfizer says the allegations "are simply untrue" and is fighting the charges against a trial it calls "responsible and ethical.") And on a continent where 2.1 million people die of HIV/AIDS a year and 2.8 million more are infected - making a total of 24.7 million people in need of drugs, a fraction of whom actually get them - drug companies operating in Africa have been accused of complicity in a 21st century catastrophe...
...about modern celebrity as about the Old West. Pitt carries himself with the ground-down grace of a star who's weary of fame. "Jesse is very conscious of his own mortality," says Dominik. "He's imprisoned by the weight of his own myth." The man is fixin' to die and waiting to see who'll be his executioner. Jesse could be Vincent Chase on HBO's Entourage, and the gang his posse. But instead of bathing in the overspill of his limelight, they're jealous, rancorous. Instead of partying with the star, they want to kill...
...Erica's radio shows voices that sentiment. "I think it's good for New York," he says of the mystery killer's exploits. "This place was turning into Disneyland." Like the Bronson character, Erica has become a hero to edgy New Yorkers - because she kills people who deserve to die. Or, rather, she takes the role of the state: judge, jury and executioner...
...sick. By 2085 an extra billion people will be at risk of contracting dengue fever because of changes in temperature and rainfall. And in yet another grim award ceremony, the Blacksmith Institute released its list of the world's most polluted places; it should not surprise anyone that people die faster in such spots...
PENN: Let me tell you what I think. My Uncle Bill, who was dying--with 13 cousins that he had all with my Aunt Joan, they had a great, happy marriage for all their years. So there he is on his deathbed. He'd been in a coma a couple of days, and a priest has come in to give last rites. This was the first time, Irish that they are, that my aunt let a tear fall, trusting that his coma would make him unaware of it. Well, open come the eyes, and he sees. He catches...