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...position had provided Chalabi with some political capital, and a little publicity. His political organization, the Iraqi National Congress, recently launched a weekly newspaper dedicated to citizens' complaints about the lack of services around Baghdad. An op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on April 12 wrote that "arguably [Chalabi] has, more than anyone in the country, evolved a detailed sense of what ails Baghdad and how to fix things...
...seems the inquiries are coming just in time. A commentary in the May 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine highlights a potentially risky shift in direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads - from drugs to devices. Last Thanksgiving, Johnson & Johnson launched its new TV commercial for Cypher, a drug-coated coronary stent, designed to prop open narrowed arteries. "To many consumers, the stent ad may not have seemed surprising or out of place," write the authors of the NEJM article. "But in making the leap from pharmaceuticals to medical devices, the ad campaign raises important questions regarding...
Sources: Guinness World Records (2); Wall Street Journal (2); USA Today...
...random fashion choice, but there is a large swath of Americans who take symbols like the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem, and, yes, the flag in its many iterations very seriously. And, as former Clinton adviser Doug Schoen pointed out in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, these are people - mostly white working-class folk - whom Obama can ill afford to offend given his losses in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia...
...regardless of what the junta says. The Bush Administration has so far rejected the idea - "I can't imagine us going in without the permission of the Myanmar government," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday - but it's not without precedent: as Natsios pointed out to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. has facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid without the host government's consent in places like Bosnia and Sudan...