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...Until she was signed in 1976 for the ABC series Charlie's Angels, Fawcett was most visible as an icon of TV commercials: she made the Mercury Cougar pant and gave extra body to Wella Balsam shampoo. For Ultra-Brite Toothpaste, her smiling mouth was the ideal 24-hour product placement...
...difference this time is that the FDA is taking the offensive, ferreting out deceitful product claims and publicizing them. FDA staff members began performing daily Internet searches, looking for products that claimed to offer special protection against the new virus. Since all the suspicious products were classified as supplements or, in the case of some, as food, any claims by their makers that these products protect consumers against swine flu - in other words, to have a druglike effect - were automatically illegal. (See the top 5 swine...
...course, the other growth engine for tech is handheld devices, and none is more exciting these days than Apple's iPhone 3GS; the company reports selling more than a million devices in the first three days after the product's introduction. "Customers are voting, and Apple is winning," CEO Steve Jobs was quoted as saying in an Apple press release. It was the first time Jobs had spoken for the company since he went on medical leave in January. Such strength will help offset weakness in Apple's computer business - sales were still declining on a year-over-year basis...
...Military spending last year made up about 2.4% of global gross domestic product...
...figure in the revival was the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman--and his libertarian ideological bent was certainly a factor. Friedman never believed markets were perfectly rational, but he thought they were more rational than governments. Friedman saw the Depression as the product of a Fed screwup--not a market disaster--and convinced himself and other economists (without much evidence) that speculators tended to stabilize markets rather than unbalance them...