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Fine then. So let me bitch. To do so I will use the aforementioned moral framework. In this situation, my friends and I opted for pragmatic utilitarianism, avoiding conflict to maximize safety and minimize pain. But looking back on it, I wish that I could have mustered a little Kant in me and called the man out on his ridiculousness...
...Bush Administration doesn't foresee an entirely pain-free fix: its latest budget, released this month, cuts dozens of programs. Still, it argues that continued growth will automatically reduce the size of the budget deficit. And U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow argues that the trade deficit is partly the result of lopsided growth. "We are growing faster than our trading partners, and we are creating more disposable income than they are," Snow said last month. "We need Europe to be more of an engine of growth, and we need Japan to be more of an engine of growth." But TIME...
Those concerns were answered last week by a series of studies that showed an increased risk of heart problems in users of not just Vioxx but Celebrex and Bextra as well, and by FDA advisory panels that recommended stronger warnings for the whole class of pain relievers known as COX-2 inhibitors. "The cardiovascular problems appear to be a class effect," says Dr. Eric Topol, director of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the magnitude of risk does seem to differ from drug to drug." It's now up to the FDA to decide whether the dangers, which...
...Drug Administration (FDA) has endured its share of rough patches. But "rough patch" hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Americans depend on the FDA to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of all drugs before approving them, but the agency has had trouble lately shaking the growing perception, justified or not, that it has been working harder protecting the pharmaceutical industry than the public...
...built like those marathon beanpoles. His frame is rock solid, the result of a cross-training routine that includes windsurfing to build upper-body strength, which helps him in the long runs. But even with the right genes and conditioning, ultras can count on plenty of joint pain, cramps, exhaustion and vomiting...