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...students and does not diminish the food’s quality. The college has “a little more leeway than Harvard,” O’Neill said, because BC students pay only for what they purchase and eat at each meal. If students request certain foods, “we just have to charge a little bit more for it,” said O’Neill. BC freshman Alex C. Carpenter said he has not noticed any menu changes, including in costs. Prices in dining halls “haven’t changed...
...diseases and their options for treating them, where does that information come from? In most cases, it's from industry-sponsored advertising, notes Watson. "The pharmaceutical marketing departments have appropriated the language of the empowered autonomous patient in the service of sales," she says. Moreover, while the FDA can request that pharmaceutical companies provide ads for the agency to review before airing, it does not have the authority to enforce this request. An agency spokesperson estimated that only one-third of such ads are actually reviewed by the FDA before airing. A proposal to increase funding...
...proposed ration of $25 billion. The Navy asked for $5 billion to be added to its bottom line of $124 billion. But all those sums added together don't equal the - hold your breath, dear taxpayer - $19 billion that the Air Force wants over and above its $144 billion request...
...Highlighting the huge request is a proposal by the Air Force to trump its civilian leaders and buy twice as many F-22 jets as now planned, while hyping the threats to justify the buy. China and India are, in the Air Force's eyes, the 21st century equivalent of the Soviet Union, requiring billions in new aircraft that even a hawkish Republican President doesn't think are needed. More critically, every dollar spent on supersonic aircraft is a dollar that isn't spent on the kind of troops and materiel needed to wage the two irregular wars the nation...
...country is reliant on the U.S. and NATO for its security and, at the same time, shares its longest land border with Iran. Afghanistan has long pleaded with the U.S. and Iran not to carry out their longstanding strategic rivalry on its soil. And for several years that request has been largely honored. Iran, a long-time supporter of the Northern Alliance, was instrumental in bringing about the fall of the Taliban. Iran has also helped more than any other neighbor with the reconstruction of the country. Since 2002, Tehran has pumped millions of dollars into Afghanistan's western provinces...