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While the popular perception of illegal insider trading may be clear-cut - say, a pharmaceutical executive selling stock right before the FDA fails to approve a new drug - the law is substantially less black and white. In 1934 Congress passed the Securities Exchange Act but didn't specifically address the topic of insider trading; it was only in the 1960s that the SEC began to bring cases under the law's antifraud statutes. Toward the end of that decade, courts codified the SEC's actions in case law, locking down the idea that everyone in the marketplace should get roughly...
...complicated web of factors and likely causes: The panel determined that two chemicals are probably responsible for GWI, both of which were administered by the U.S. military to its own soldiers: the drug pyridostigmine bromide, given to troops to protect against nerve gas, and pesticides sprayed around barracks, dining halls and uniforms to protect against insects. But the panel did not rule out the myriad other toxic chemicals that soldiers faced on the ground, including "hundreds of burning oil-well fires that turned the Kuwaiti sky black with smoke, dramatic reports of uranium-tipped munitions, sandstorms, secret vaccines, and frequent...
...participated in the Smokeout, with a million dropping the habit for good. The campaign was directed in particular at young people; antismoking activists said it was harder to keep teenagers from picking up the habit than to get older people to drop it. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1980 21% of high school students were habitual puffers. Over the years, the Cancer Society has enlisted celebrities and health officials to promote the Smokeout campaign - everyone from Dallas star and ex-smoker Larry Hagman (1981) to Mr. Potato Head, who was 1987's "Spokespud." (Some reports...
...film's initial reception among Hollywood executives: Many insiders considered De Palma's Scarface a not-so-subtle critique of a drug-addled entertainment industry. "Steven Bauer repeated to me the famous anecdote about one major director's reaction: 'Marty Scorsese turned to me - he was sitting in front of me at the premiere - and he turned around and said, Steven, this is a magnificent film, but be prepared, because Hollywood is going to hate this film, because it's about them.' [Producer Martin Bregman] concurred about the dim view his colleagues took of the film: 'Scorsese was right. Hollywood...
...initial audiences and hailing it as one of the most influential works of our time. But to his credit, Tucker avoids preaching to the choir or trying to win over skeptics. His mission is not to defend the worthiness of Scarface but to establish the boundaries of this drug opus' lasting and profound influence. As a historian, Tucker is fair, acknowledging the film's many faults and the gradual emergence of a vast, underground fan base. And he spends a good many chapters detailing the ways in which the movie reached beyond the theater, inspiring everyone from TV producers...