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...Other than the growing profit margins for the food industry, the only good thing about fast-food companies' pushing meat, fat and sugar on the developing world is the financial boon it will create for another ethically challenged U.S. industry. As those chicken nuggets start clogging arteries and aiding the global obesity epidemic, millions of people will develop diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. What an untapped market for the pharmaceutical sector! Simon Chaitowitz, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...amplified into being a problem by those who would like to really diminish the role of science and increase the influence of immediate profit,” he added...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Profs Call for Science Debate | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

Other than the growing profit margins for the food industry, the only good thing about fast-food companies' pushing meat, fat and sugar on the developing world is the financial boon it will create for another ethically challenged U.S. industry. As those chicken nuggets start clogging arteries and aiding the global obesity epidemic, millions of people will develop diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. What an untapped market for the pharmaceutical sector! Simon Chaitowitz, WASHINGTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greasy Imperialism | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

Unlike most deals between researchers and for-profit companies, conflict-of-interest restrictions do not apply in this case, according to Preminger...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS, Pharma Co. Join Forces | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...Intelligence. Sources say lawyers representing one current Guantanamo detainee plan to present evidence that he was subjected to videotaped interrogation, in addition to unspecified "systematic torture" when he was held in secret CIA prisons. The lawyers, from the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based legal non-profit with a long record of advocacy for prisoners at Guantanamo, have asserted in court filings that the videotaping occurred after their client's arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Charges of Gitmo Torture | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

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