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This week the House voted 298 to 112 to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco along with food and drugs. Ted Kennedy will soon introduce his version of the bill in the Senate. The White House supports the bill: "Tobacco use is a major factor driving the increasing costs of health care in the U.S.," said a statement by the Office of Management and Budget, "and accounts for over a hundred billion dollars annually in financial costs to the economy...
...direct link between these activities and organized crime both North and South [of the Irish border]", says Tom Conlan, security analyst with The Irish Times, who claims the weapons used by the Real IRA to murder the two British soldiers in County Antrim last month were supplied by Dublin drug gangs. "[The dissidents] are cynically manipulating latent republican feeling to cover their own criminal activities and to sustain them...
...Back in L.A., Toretto tracks the gang responsible for the murder, as well as for that pesky Mexico-U.S. drug-running you may have read about recently. He and Brian, whom Dom has never forgiven for falling in love with Mia, quickly infiltrate the gang. They're hired by Campos (John Ortiz), a mouthy middleman, to drive $60 million in heroin bricks across the border for a mysterious pan-American scurvisto named Braga, whose identity gets a longer buildup than Orson Welles' Harry Lime did in The Third Man. There's a little more plot and a lot more...
...park, falling in love with another employee, Em (Kristen Stewart), who herself is dealing with the stress surrounding the death of her mother and her affair with the park's older, married mechanic (Ryan Reynolds). TIME talked with Mottola about the film's quirky characters, its occasional scenes of drug usage - marijuana is this boy's secret weapon when it comes to making friends at his new job - and Mottola's favorite carnival food. (See TIME's "Top 10 Movie Bromances...
...Pharma is down, and it may be out. Its problems are not cyclical. As drugs go off patent and fewer "blockbuster" products make it to the market, the future of being in the pharmaceuticals business may be as much about cutting costs as it is R&D. Drug companies don't have any buoyancy. If the stock market has to count on them, the rally is going to be hindered...