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...said that often the Food and Drug Administration allows the drug companies to take short cuts on their testing, because its standard of "reasonable certainty of no harm" is too vague...
...shall never forgive myself for it. I did not hold anything in my mind to harm anybody. I was very troubled," he said...
What, then, to do about the use of a substance that is not intrinsically immoral but that society wants to discourage because of its potential for harm? We have muddled through to a fairly good compromise: make the use illegal, but be extremely circumspect about enforcing the law. Illegality is important to prevent the predictably vast increase in use that would occur if you could get a pack of Acapulco Gold out of the machine that now gives you Kools. And non-prosecution is important because you don't persecute people for behavior that you find impossible to argue...
...recomposed face to a mugging or a fall in the kitchen. Over the years, colleagues and friends chose to believe the mugging and accident stories. Neighbors who heard the screams firsthand placed dozens of telephone calls to the police and to city authorities, who investigated but could prove no harm. The authorities did not hear the screams. After her beatings, the child lay brain dead, and the couple was in custody. Now no one in that building hears the screams...
Most of the harm that brokers may face, however, is financial. An estimated 24,000 of the securities industry's 300,000 workers are expected to lose their jobs in the market slowdown. Many more may forfeit their six-figure bonuses. The economic ripple effects will be felt most strongly on the Eastern Seaboard, especially in New York City, where sales of luxury cars, expensive homes, jewelry and other trappings of Wall Street success are already starting to suffer. The city could also be hurt by a falloff in tax revenue from the financial industry, which last year amounted...