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Researchers found that most of the increase came from just a few drugs, including the anti-inflammatory Vioxx, the antiulcer drug Prilosec and the antihistamine Claritin. These drugs lend themselves to so-called direct-to-consumer (DTC) promotion, researchers said, because they treat common chronic conditions and have relatively mild side effects that do not require long disclaimers...
...road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson then moves down a gear into “Metarie,” a frankly earnest ballad about the first, halting steps of a burgeoning relationship. Folky guitars, ascending chromatic tones and backing-singer Emma J’s plaintive voice lend the track a haunting, ethereal quality, but for want of a female vocalist, “Metarie” unfortunately didn’t make it into the TT’s performance...
...Taliban, he was at home, he was friends with the Talibs," says elder Farou Khan. Younis even give large numbers of fighters to the fanatical Islamic government. But, as Abdul Rauf's son tries to explain, "this was compulsory of every landlord". However this warlord did more than lend his soldiers; he allowed his son Mullah Ahmadullah to join the Taliban...
Enron stands out from this sorry list not by virtue of the company's size but because the scandal is of such a fundamental nature. At the heart of capitalism is the act of investment, which is nothing more than a decision by one party to lend money to another in the hope of a return. The system can't function without trust--trust that the money so lent will not be stolen or applied to illegal purposes, and trust that an enterprise's accounts will accurately reflect the state of its business. Company directors, lawyers and accountants are said...
...culture of celebrity was defunct; suddenly, we remembered that Barbra Streisand was not a political philosopher. Neither is Jack Welch or Bill Gates or, certainly, Ken Lay. In the '90s, we treated businessmen as if they were film stars (and we treated film stars like gods). But we lend stars our affections only; we lend businessmen our chance of future prosperity. A lesson from Enron: we would be wise to entrust that responsibility to those with their feet on the ground, not on a pedestal. Even if we built it for them...