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Under U.S. law, the FDA is required to approve drugs for sale so long as their safety and efficacy are confirmed. However, in the case of Plan B, it seems that the FDA disregarded protocol in hopes of gratifying conservative interests. In fact, two FDA officials, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Steven Galson and acting FDA commissioner Lester M. Crawford are being urged to resign for playing politics at the FDA. Some congressmen are also calling for an investigation of the FDA in order to determine whether their dealings were...
...reports in the ensuing months suggest the new protocol is very rarely invoked. A University of Illinois survey of public libraries before Sept. 11 and a year after shows no significant increase in the percentage of respondents who have received information requests from law enforcement agents, and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said last year that the provision had never been used...
...last night, FAS Network Operations reported that they had fixed the cause of the problem—the failure of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DCHP) service, which assigns the internet protocol addresses that allow users to connect to the internet...
...made permanent, while congressional Republicans have killed attempts to revive the “pay as you go” budget rules of the Clinton era. And that’s not the only rising tide Bush has ignored. The president’s alternative to the Kyoto protocol consists of voluntary emission standards for industry, no caps on carbon dioxide emissions and more research on whether this whole global warmification thing that the International Panel on Climate Change and the National Academy of Sciences keep goin’ on about really exists...
...resumption of oil imports to the U.S. and most commercial activities. Gaddafi has pledged to end his WMD program. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... No, Dahling The English National Opera has banned its employees from using the traditional showbiz greeting "darling" because it might constitute sexual harassment. New guidelines on workplace protocol also outlaw suggestive remarks or lewd conduct. But old-school thespians need not despair: so far, at least,"luvvie" and "sweetie" have escaped censure...