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The buying and selling of permits for greenhouse gases is permitted under the Kyoto treaty to combat climate change. Despite the rejection of the pact by the U.S., other major governments, including Japan, have ratified it, and trading in permits for carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, is increasing in...
Restaurant associations often quote a survey result that showed a 30 percent decrease in restaurant revenue after the implementation of a total smoking ban in Beverly Hills, California. This survey, howeve r, was commissioned by a public relations company working for Phillip Morris and was based on a survey that...
Summers countered that the administration had advocated more rigorous oversight and had fought congressional Republicans’ attempts to weaken the government’s power through deregulation.
But the regulatory palliatives are likely to be only temporary stopgaps. The region is awash in cheap diet aids manufactured in largely unregulated Chinese factories. Classified by many countries as "health food"?rather than as pharmaceutical products, which must pass rigorous safety tests before they can be marketed?the concoctions...
Half of these women were randomly assigned to receive the hormone combination, and the other half were given a placebo, or dummy pill. Neither the women nor their doctors knew who was taking the active medication. This type of study, called a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial, is the most...