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Then last month the church really caused a furor by pulling off a slick real estate coup to obtain the Cardinal Gushing Villa, a 30-room retreat house, from the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, a Connecticut-based order of nuns. The sisters were known to have been opposed to dealing with the Moonies. They sold the property for $1 million to New Hampshire Businessman Myron Block, who turned out to be in cahoots with the Unification Church. The next day, Block sold the retreat to the Moonies for $1,127,000. In addition, just two weeks...
...furor is a perfect example of petrodiplomacy. Do we value our gas tanks more than the First Amendment...
...claimed, depended largely upon Harvard's participation) quickly became embroiled in the dispute. Faculty and alumni representatives announced that they would remain neutral, while student organizations rallied to support the boycott and called on the Coop to offer an alternate gown. Yet somewhere in the midst of all the furor of organizing pickets and calling for boycotts, the essential question lay buried. Was the ILGWU justified in seeking a total boycott of the rather obscure factory in upstate New York...
...into the sun with a nuclear cargo would require extremely high speeds and prodigious amounts of fuel, as would the alternative of sending it out of the solar system. The nearby moon, on the other hand, is more accessible, but contaminating that pristine surface would surely create an international furor. Nor would public concern be less if the debris were left circling the earth, with the potential of becoming a nuclear Skylab...
Partly in response to the furor, the FDA now plans to require inserts for only ten drugs, one of them probably the popular tranquilizer Valium. FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, supports this truth-in-prescription experiment, but acknowledges that PPIs may have surprising side effects. He cites the case of a friend's wife who underwent a hysterectomy, or removal of the uterus. Later she was given a prescription for estrogen, for which the FDA has required PPIs since 1977. After reading the leaflet, she immediately wanted to stop taking the hormone. Her reason: she was afraid...