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Three years ago in North Carolina, DuPont helped ram through the legislature a bill requiring doctor's approval for the substitution of generics like Barr's warfarin. "We are only concerned about patient safety," says DuPont spokesman Thomas Barry. Some physicians support DuPont's position because they say warfarin is a tricky drug and doses must be carefully calibrated. The implication is that the brand names do a better job of that. But the FDA says the generic version is safe and has admonished DuPont more than once for stoking false fears in its promotion of Coumadin...
...front door, they first had to get past a few self-styled sentinels who, somewhat pathetically, tried to wrap up the feds in a TV news camera's cable. Then the agents banged twice on the door; when no one answered, they pushed in the door with a battering ram and moved quickly through the six-room house to find Elian. The rest is etched into the American imagination...
...once peripatetic Ram Dass gets around these days by wheelchair or, as he calls it, his swan boat. While working on a manuscript about aging in 1997, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He remains partially paralyzed and has aphasia. When he was able to resume writing, the experience had enriched his understanding, and, as he writes in his new book, Still Here, "it gave me an encounter with a kind of physical suffering that often accompanies aging." Had it happened when he was young, he says, he would have been thrown into turmoil. "I can accept more now because...
...position at Harvard and started him off on a spiritual road on which he is still traveling. He found a different kind of high in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he met up with a guru known as the Maharaji. Out of that encounter came both the name Ram Dass and Be Here Now, his 1970s million-selling guide to higher consciousness. Published this month, Still Here speaks to a generation less concerned with turning on, tuning in and dropping out than with fearing the effects of growing older. "In this society," he maintains, "aging is more...
...Ram Dass Library continues to sell tapes of his teachings, and he laughs about a couple in their 70s who told him recently, "You go to bed with us every night." Since the stroke, his external world has shrunk. He travels in the U.S. to lecture, but the annual trips he once made to India are out of the question, at least for now. From his home in Marin County, Calif., he says, "I can see out to mountains, and the bay, water, trees and birds." Words and sentences come slowly, and he seems to dwell comfortably in a universe...