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...Mad Men" Season 1, Disc...
Still, the map raises some interesting (if not really important) questions. Why, for instance, was there a complete absence of sci-fi flicks in the top 10 for 02139 (where our MIT neighbors live)? Are you surprised that, in the Boston area, "Mad Men" was rented more in Harvard Square than anywhere else? Or that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was the most rented film in all of America? Just some J-Term food for thought...
...name a few. But in addition to the cultural flotsam that drives the rest of the world crazy, America is literally exporting its mental illnesses. "In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been, for better and worse, homogenizing the way the world goes mad," writes journalist Ethan Watters. He traces how conditions first widely diagnosed in the U.S., such as anorexia and PTSD, have spread abroad "with the speed of contagious diseases." The growth of Big Pharma and the widespread adoption of U.S. health standards have made the ailing American psyche the primary diagnostic...
...from Ma's party overturned a U.S.-Taiwan agreement, just signed in October, lifting a ban imposed in 2003 on U.S. beef parts. The new legislation, passed Tuesday, reinstitutes the ban on the import of beef skull, brains, eyes, spine, intestines and ground beef from places with cases of mad cow disease within the past ten years, which includes...
...After a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washington state in 2003, 65 nations imposed partial or full bans on U.S. beef, plunging the American beef industry's exports down by over 75%. Those numbers have yet to recover to their 2003 level of over 1.2 million metric tons, even as nations have softened their positions. Japan, the U.S.'s biggest export market, along with Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries retrenched slightly in 2006, instituting new, partials ban on beef parts thought to be prone to potential infection. South Korea lifted its U.S. beef...