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...romance between drug companies and doctors has been going on for a long time. Drugmakers ply doctors with gifts, and doctors, say the watchdogs, write pads of prescriptions in return. Now the A.M.A. (with the support of the drug companies) is planning an ad campaign to remind physicians what they can and can't accept...
There are some lessons in this for us. These episodes remind us that universities are often the product and beneficiary of the great interests (in this case what used to be called the “slave power”). As a result, they are often more likely to justify than to condemn those interests. Professor McWhorter is just another in a long line of teachers, stretching back to the leading pro-slavery authors of the 1800s, who believe with Alexander Pope that “whatever is, is right.” He may honestly, if mistakenly, believe that...
...cuts? The broccoli. Choke ?em down, they?re good for the economy. Bush again touted his $1.3 trillion tax cut as well-timed fiscal stimulus for a U.S. economy mired in a slowdown. (A slowdown "that started last year," as Bush hastens to remind us.) Repealing it - even, presumably, the parts that won?t kick in until 2004 and beyond - "would be an anchor on our economy, and I assure you I won?t allow...
...before rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases force temperatures even higher. Later this year, he and his colleagues will report the results of the first climate record ever extracted from Kilimanjaro's ice--and very likely the last. "The world is warming," Thompson likes to remind people, "and it is foolish to pretend that...
...conflicts in ways that would prevent them spinning out of control. But Moscow is no longer a global power, and Washington is no longer sure if it wants to be. Into the vacuum have stepped all manner of secessionists, religious terrorists, criminal syndicates and old-fashioned power politicians to remind us how, paradoxically, the Cold War may have actually been a stabilizing factor precisely because of the dangers it embodied...