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...maybe there was more than cynicism behind the idea. The drug problem--some would say hysteria--has risen to the top of the public's list of concerns, and polling shows that Americans view drugs as the number one problem facing the country. With this concern in mind, the Republicans have been thinking about naming a Drug Czar of their...
Most notably for consumers, the cost of food is going up. The Government reported last week that prices paid to farmers for grain crops rose 3.7% in June alone, after increasing 6.1% during the first five months of the year. Since January, soybean futures prices have risen from $4.70 per bu. to more than $10, and traders are talking about "beans in the teens" by year's end, which would break the record high of $12.90 reached during a shortage in 1973. As a result, the Department of Agriculture now estimates that food prices will rise between...
...inflation measure upwards by a percentage point or two. Some economists, like David Jones of the investment firm Aubrey Lanston, believe the food-price run-up will combine with rising wages and other commodity shortages to set off a genuine inflationary spiral. (The price of aluminum, for example, has risen more than 75% during the past year, while copper is up more than...
Hansen contends that over the past century worldwide temperatures have risen by about 1.2 degrees F, compared with the natural variation over such a period of only 0.4 degrees F. "Warming has been sufficient that it is unlikely to have been accidental," he notes. But other scientists question whether this can be attributed to the greenhouse effect. Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder agrees with Hansen that this has been the warmest decade on record and that the planet is gradually heating up. But the evidence, he says, is circumstantial. Contends Schneider: "It doesn...
Giorgio was the pioneer of scent strips, but more than a dozen other manufacturers have followed suit, since the tactic seems to work wonders. Fragrance sales, which fell in the early 1980s, have steadily risen for the past five years, according to the Fragrance Foundation. Scent strips have become so effective that they are challenging department stores as the primary means for introducing and sampling new fragrances. For readers who cannot make it to the nearest posh department store, the ads provide a toll-free 800 number to call to buy the product from the privacy of their living room...