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...quickly becoming a black-eye for the White House. When the United States convened an international conference in Botswana to discuss the issue last month, the European Union’s leading drug regulatory authority boycotted the meeting. Congresspersons, including independent-minded Republican sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, have signed open letters criticizing the administration’s stance...
...World Health Organization estimates released this week. "Low-carb products will make it easier for diabetics to control their diets while giving them access to foods that were formerly strictly limited," says Edward O'Neill, associate director of the food-processing center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The diabetic market alone can sustain many of the low-carb products coming to life, he notes...
Designed by Friedrich St. Florian, an architect based in Providence, R.I., the 712-acre memorial created controversy early on because of its proposed location. So as not to rupture the sight line between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, or to intrude upon the space where the 1963 civil rights march was held, it was originally planned for a site off the central axis. But eventually it was shifted there. By way of compromise, the memorial's central feature is now a stone plaza sunk 6 ft. below ground level. Even that doesn't do much to minimize...
...center of that plaza is a rebuilt but scaled-down version of the Rainbow Pool, which marks the far end of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. On either side is a four-story arched pavilion--one marked ATLANTIC, the other PACIFIC--each enclosing four bronze columns that support a circle of bronze eagles. Around the plaza's perimeter is that colonnade, 56 granite pillars (one for every U.S. state and territory at the time of the war), each 17 ft. high. The memorial is also a bulletin board. All around there are surfaces bearing words: VICTORY AT SEA. SOUTHERN EUROPE...
Democrats are getting in on the act. During their Boston convention, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will be the host of a late-night concert party called Rockin' on the Dock of the Bay, with proceeds going to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation. According to a brochure for the event obtained by TIME, $100,000 donors will get 100 free tickets, backstage passes to meet the rock band, a "premium bar" and the chance to groove with Democratic Senators. Steve Patterson, Lincoln's campaign manager, insists his boss sees the party only as "an opportunity to raise substantial funds...