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Recent public-opinion surveys put the pharmaceutical industry in the unpleasant company of cigarette makers and oil giants, which may help explain why U.S. drug companies have been so eager to polish their image. Pfizer, maker of such blockbusters as Lipitor, Viagra and Zoloft, announced last week that it will provide discounted drugs to uninsured Americans, regardless of age or income. Average savings for families making less than $45,000 could be nearly 40%. Pfizer is also expanding a program that provides free medicine to families making less than $31,000. With politicians under pressure to lift rules preventing Americans...
...accelerating migration of players across national boundaries is creating a few incongruities. Poland's star striker, for example, is Emmanuel Olisadebe, a Nigerian who'd gone to play for a Polish club side and had so impressed the country's football authorities that the government had fast-tracked him for citizenship in order to boost their prospects at the last World Cup. The irony is that although Olisadebe is still the mainstay of the Polish attack, he no longer even lives in Poland, having moved to a more lucrative gig for the Greek club Panathanaikos...
...keep him from moving his factory to Poland: affinity for the town where his factory is based and the trade unions. "He says, 'If I just look at the economics, it's a no-brainer. What it costs me to employ a German for one hour, I get a Polish skilled worker for a day plus I pay 19% tax,'" says Barnes. "He is not going to close his factory, but his next investment is going to be in Poland." From Eastern Europe, calls for harmonization sound like sour grapes. "We look at the German economy with a sense...
...Girl and Boy Scout troops are taking organized tours through establishments ranging from Sports Authority stores to Saturn dealerships to Krispy Kreme outlets. With school budgets squeezed in recent years, these free excursions are in some cases replacing trips to more traditional destinations. While companies are eager to polish their community image, critics say the real goal is to turn kids into brand-loyal consumers...
DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic and dissident in the 1970s who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into the fold of future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (in which welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency failed. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said, "There would have been no success or victory without him, without...