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...morning this month, Dr. Michael Buenaflor, a family practitioner in Northampton, Pa., took a call from a patient who wanted a prescription. And not just any prescription. The caller insisted on Nicorette, a drug intended to help people stop smoking. How did he find out about it? From an advertisement. When Buenaflor suggested that the drug might not be appropriate for prolonged use, since the patient had a heart condition and an ulcer, the man hung up and took his "business" elsewhere. Concludes Buenaflor: "The pressure to use these drugs is incredible...
...biggest battles at the moment: protecting some 250 members of the mining community of Kellogg, Idaho, where lead has been leaching from an old Gulf Resources smelter, and trying to help 400 families living near five toxic lagoons at the Mill Service dump site in Yukon, Pa...
...Harlem to cover up billboards promoting such products. In Chicago a mysterious crusader who calls himself Mandrake has been painting over similar billboards in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Several billboard companies have responded by voluntarily limiting the placement of certain ads. Since January the Patrick Media Group of Scranton, Pa., has eliminated its ads for cigarettes and liquor near schools and churches in 15 major cities...
...visit to Washington last week, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited Paderewski's grave in Arlington Cemetery. Whenever his bones are returned, his heart will remain in the U.S. -- literally. Following family wishes, the musician's heart has been enshrined since 1986 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Doylestown, Pa., and there it shall stay...
Among senators at the high end of PAC funding were Alfonso D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who received $1.3 million; Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who received $1.6 million and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who received $1.49 million...