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...women in Hayes' survey think they know whose fault that is: 58% of those who were dissatisfied blamed the ignorance of their doctors. And they may be right. In a 1999 Gallup poll, only 55% of physicians surveyed correctly identified heart disease as the greatest health risk for women over 50. That's better than the 8% of American women who got the answer right in an American Heart Association survey--but doctors are expected to know this kind of thing...
...departing from the conventions of a glossy, well-paced international thriller, gets at something more ominous: what he views as the subtle treason of the marketer, whereby something decent and good (like a painting or a rock song) gets trivialized into an object of commerce. Good faith, through no fault of its own, becomes bad faith. None of which means Orwell was wrong, but there were dangers, real ones, that even he didn't foresee. After all, the age of thought-crime and Newspeak is still a few years off, but 1984 has already been turned into a TV commercial...
...dollars won’t be spent on “druggies.” To justify this harsh treatment of America’s youth, drug warriors transform the problem into one of personal responsibility. They argue that it’s not the government’s fault these people did not choose to apply to school again. While there is much to be said for reinstating personal responsibility as a value in this country, such arguments drastically miss the point: shouldn’t the government at the very least not discourage working class youth from attending...
Cleary agreed in dismissing the choke rap on the current Eagle squad, saying. "I hear that stuff all the time. But how can you fault the B.C. team? They played a helluva hockey game tonight...
...nation might take steps to avert the threat. The new position is a clever one: By leaving moot the question of cause, and by implying that no one could have done anything about it, the administration also implies that no one is responsible. The administration underscored its genial "no fault" approach when it recently asked industry to voluntarily reduce emissions...