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...year when foreign direct investment has plunged about 27% worldwide, China is expected to buck the trend with a record influx of over $50 billion. Indeed, new U.N. forecasts say China will pass the U.S. for the first time as the top recipient of foreign investment. Speedy Little Pill The European Parliament struck down an industry-backed measure that some feared would allow consumer advertising. But that medicine came with a spoonful of sugar: a bill to create the world's quickest drug approvals, cutting the wait from 18 months to about seven. Goodbye, Herbal Viagra? Unsolicited e-mail...
...also much scarier. Like Rowling's books, the movies are becoming darker and more intense as they progress. (After several delays, Rowling, who says there will be seven Potter books in all, will deliver the fifth novel next year.) Running against the Hollywood tradition of sugar-coating every pill, Columbus is eager to let you know that your children may be very afraid. A presumably dead cat is hung in a Hogwarts hallway; Hogwarts students are frozen stiff ("petrified") by a monster; Harry and his sidekick Ron Weasley are attacked with surprising violence by a giant Whomping Willow after they...
...there is something arresting about it too. The damned thing keeps gnawing at your mind--if only for its almost perfect lack of conventional sentiment. Or movieness. Take a tough pill--and maybe wear your lead shoes--and check it out. It's one of the oddest American "comedies" in recent memory. --By Richard Schickel
...Hager becomes chairman of the 11-member Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, he will lead its study of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest controversies in health care. Some conservatives are trying to use doubts about such therapy to discredit the use of birth-control pills, which contain similar compounds. The panel also made the key recommendation in 1996 that led to approval of the "abortion pill," RU-486--a decision that abortion foes are still fighting. Hager assisted the Christian Medical Association last August in a "citizens' petition" calling upon the FDA to reverse itself...
That Sulak should be leading this charge is a little surprising. She is a highly respected contraceptive expert who has devoted the past decade to researching the birth-control pill. She came to her latest cause seven years ago when she was asked to help choose a sex-ed program for her son's middle school. The curriculums she examined were steeped in ideology and medical errors. So she designed one, drawing extensively on data from the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. "All we've done is state facts," she says, "and you can't argue with facts...