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...Lipitor ads are only a lightning rod for a growing concern about how prescription drugs are advertised to the public. While patients cannot purchase the drugs on their own, they can - and do - approach their doctors about certain medications they see touted on television or in magazines. Seeing celebrities or other well-known figures endorsing a drug may make a medication all the more appealing. That's why Representatives John Dingell and Bart Stupak, both of Michigan, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee decided last month to investigate how truthful this celebrity-driven drug advertising is - and hope...
...information to better plan for upcoming semester costs. Racusen said the measure would enable students “to make the most cost-effective decisions when purchasing their textbooks...and would provide students with more choices when buying textbooks.” Rising textbook prices have remained a lightning rod of criticism for undergraduates. Last year, students from the Crimson Reading Web site—which allows students to compare textbook prices online for selected courses—had a run-in with the Coop when staff members called the police on them for refusing to leave while copying down...
...discussion about who might be the all-time greatest tennis player would be complete without mention of Rod Laver, the leftie from Rockhampton, Australia, who twice in the 1960s won the grand slam (taking all four of tennis's major singles titles - the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S Open - in the same year). No other male player of the Open era has managed the feat. Laver, who suffered a stroke 10 years ago, will turn 70 in August and has lived in California since 1966. On the eve of the Australian Open, he gave a rare...
...Beef is best in flavor and texture when cattle is between 18 and 24 months old,” which accounts for why most cattle are slaughtered at this age.) Most slaughters are two-step. First, the bull receives a bolt of electricity or a metal rod to the forehead, which stuns it into unconsciousness. Next, its throat is cut, at which point it dies of exsanguination. It’s not exactly a pretty process, but if—like me—you really like hamburgers, the reality of the process is just something that you have...
...rights groups that declare bullfighting “cruelty towards animals” and asking myself: Do I agree with them? And I realized that the answer is no. I don’t know who could really say whether two years in a feedlot and a quick metal rod to the head is better, overall, than three years running free and 20 minutes of pain. Neither, however, do I agree with Hemingway; during the corrida that I attended (a corrida includes six individual fights), I saw very little of art and honor, but a lot of slaughter...