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...often hear from patients who have read about a new medication and want me to write a prescription. To them, I must sound like a stick in the mud. Unless the medication they're taking is not working, however, I'm generally reluctant to change. They assume that newer drugs are better; I assume the old ones are fine...
...were not enough to reject the “Clean Skies” initiative, there is also a clause in the bill that allows a system of “credits” so that older, pollution-heavy plants can purchase “pollution credits” from newer, low-emission plants. This proposal is, quite simply, conservative market capitalism gone horribly wrong. It would allow outdated (and in many cases, sorely inefficient) power plants to pollute more merely because they can afford to buy pollution “credits” from newer plants. Bush...
...Gore and prominent environmental advocates argue, we should not continue to allow big industries to pollute in such a manner. Instead, the government should put its efforts into ending sulfur dioxide pollution by closing down outdated and dirty power plants. Newer, environment-friendly plants should not be an excuse to allow older plants to continue emitting harmful toxins; rather, low-polluting plants should be the only acceptable type. Government incentives should be given to encourage the construction of new plants and not, as Bush proposes, to act as life-support for obsolete behemoths...
Aside from conservation groups like Enviro-Ed and Green Cup—which holds monthly contests for the most energy efficient house—newer groups also joined in the celebration...
...reputation. Credit movies like Reality Bites, TV shows like Sex and the City and statistical gems like the recent survey from Oppenheimer Funds in which most Gen X women said they'll accumulate 30 pairs of shoes before they rack up $30,000 for retirement. But some newer research has emerged to show that Gen Xers--the 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1977--don't deserve their slacker image...