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...After having filed a mere 13 lawsuits against the industry in the entire decade of the '80s, the FTC has brought three cases this year. One action involved a diet pill that when swallowed, according to the ads, would break "into thousands of particles, each acting like a tiny magnet." Fat cells would allegedly be attracted to the "magnets" and eliminated through the digestive system. In addition to - going after such obvious frauds, the FTC has initiated a broad investigation of diet-clinic advertising...
...sophisticated woman . . . she'd been in love so often that her heart felt like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse of Clea's development: "She burned to take this lad to bed and teach him what...
...case arose in Kansas City following a long-running battle over the public schools. The school system, once segregated by law, is now overwhelmingly black because of white flight to the suburbs. Federal District Judge Russell Clark adopted a sweeping "magnet-school" plan proposed by the school board, designed to lure white students back. When the school district was unable to pay the costs, Clark unilaterally doubled the local property...
Another challenge facing Schwitters, who alternates between private fights with Government bureaucrats and public appearances in cowboy boots and a ten- gallon hat, is to recruit hundreds of physicists to work on the accelerator. That may not be so easy. Once it is built, the SSC will be a magnet for young, ambitious scientists. But since Congress will have to appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the next half-decade for the project, there is always a chance that the money will suddenly dry up, along with jobs. CERN's budget, on the other hand, is shouldered...
...earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary of the deranged homeless who make the subterranean world so menacing, have not fantasized responding to assault with violence?" wrote social commentator Myron Magnet in the New York Times. Public wrath at the homeless was so palpable that the Rev. George Kuhn felt the need to admonish restraint at the funeral of Sumter's still unidentified victim. "Homeless people are not wanted in our country," said Kuhn. "We have to say, 'I am ready...