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Well, whoa there, Mr. Clark! No one should have to prove love of country by wearing an American-flag patch stitched tightly across the mouth. Let's recall what distinguishes our country from your run-of-the-mill nation-state. We Americans have no history of dynasties or dictators, no tradition of scraping and bowing, cringing or marching in step. This is a nation founded in revolution, birthed by rebels and dissidents. They had a lot to say on many subjects, like God and country, duty and freedom -- and none of it was "shut...
...Federal Trade Commission has cracked down on a handful of infomercials for unsubstantiated claims, misrepresentation or outright fraud. One was the EuroTrym Diet Patch, an adhesive disk that attached to the skin and was supposed to curb the appetite. (It didn't.) The producer was slapped with a $1.5 million fine for making false claims for the device, as well as for two other products, Y-Bron, an impotence remedy, and Foliplexx, a treatment for baldness. At least six more infomercials are currently under investigation. "People are mesmerized by TV," says Barry Cutler, director of the FTC's Bureau...
...India, the going rate for a kidney from a live donor is $1,500; for a cornea, $4,000; for a patch of skin, $50. Two centers of the thriving kidney trade are Bombay, where private clinics cater to Indians and a foreign clientele dominated by wealthy Arabs, and Madras, a center for patients from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Renal patients in India and Pakistan who cannot find a relative to donate a kidney are permitted to buy newspaper advertisements offering living donors up to $4,300 for the organ. Mohammad Aqeel, a poor Karachi tailor who recently sold...
Wong says that in the garden patch of life, she's glad to have spent so much time peeling onions. "In the working world, you don't have that luxury to share with people on late night runs to IHOP. We'll all be fine--the bottom line is that we'll all be fine--but it'll never be the same...
Despotic dorm crew supervisors will make their workers lick the shower stalls clean (three times). Loose floor tiles in the houses will be repaired overnight and daffodils will suddenly appear in every patch where Facility Maintenance's Fast-Gro grass seed failed...