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Rose is a product of our culture. We teach our business moguls, our movie stars and our Pete Roses that the rules of conduct, and even our laws, do not apply to them as they do to the rest of us. During Major League Baseball's investigation of Rose in 1989, one of his lawyers argued to me that "Pete Rose is a national institution. He doesn't think baseball can afford to take...
...acquittal begins with selecting the most sympathetic jury. In preparation for a Jan. 20 showdown with federal prosecutors in New York City, her legal team spent last week sifting through hundreds of 35-page juror questionnaires that probed such matters as whether people had ever purchased a Martha Stewart product or heard of the biotech firm ImClone. The fate of the domestic diva, who faces charges stemming from her sale of 3,928 ImClone shares shortly before the stock price plummeted in 2001, hinges on whether the jury sees her as a cover-up artist or as a victim...
Trouble is, often the taste is not shared. Jessica (not her real name), 28, a product manager in New York City, tolerates her boyfriend's pornography habit, but his admiration for bodies like that of porn queen Jenna Jameson has made her insecure, so she plans to get breast implants. "My boyfriend told me lots of his friends' girlfriends have done it," she says. "He said to me, 'Imagine what an awesome body you'll have!' I can't blame him for his preferences." But Jessica isn't sure that surgery will improve their sex life. "He tends...
There's fat, and then there's trans fat (e.g., "hydrogenated" oils)--also known as trans-fatty acids. Food manufacturers began using them in place of saturated fats in the 1980s. Trans fats extended the shelf life of certain products, and foodmakers thought they made edibles safer. Turns out trans fats, like saturated fats, raise bad cholesterol (LDL) and may lower good cholesterol (HDL). As if that weren't bad enough, they may also increase the risk of diabetes. Current labeling guidelines don't require manufacturers to state how many grams of trans fats are in a product...
...don’t know what the final product will look like. We like the idea of using students to conduct the escorts,” Catalano said. “But we will take a more active role in supervising the program and publicizing the program to the community...