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...prescribed the diet drugs "off label" (in unapproved ways); scientists who ignored early signs of trouble with fenfluramine; Food and Drug Administration officials who acted more like agents of industry than of the taxpaying public; and politicians who repaid campaign contributions from the pharmaceuticals by pressuring the FDA to rush dubious new drugs through the pipeline. Like her litigators', Mundy's language is sometimes hyperbolic. She also lets the public off a little too easily for relying on pill-popping solutions rather than changes in lifestyle. Nonetheless, she provides a read that will have you gritting your teeth...
...party at the Majestic Hotel. Jackie Chan, Samo Hung, Jet Li, they were all there, and everyone was invited. Except Your Intrepid Reporter - even after begging. So YIR and his comely escort stood in the hotel driveway, watching thousands of lucky people pressed against one another in a subway-rush-hour crush. The only people allowed to join the party were Hong Kong celebrities arriving in limos and whisked into another entrance. Then YIR's escort spotted a familiar face, that of director Peter Chan, inside one of the Mercedeses. "Hop in," Chan said. We rode about four meters...
...they are resistant to some options. Ashley still goes out to shop: she wants to touch the fruit in the market herself. When she is in a rush, she sends Raymond a short message via cell phone saying what she'd like him to pick up. She refuses to use the virtual Post-it note system on the home's portal - which is accessed only via the computer (a similar product features prominently in the plans of many appliance makers). The first and last time the Tangs tried their home videoconferencing equipment was during the crowded press conference held...
...reason the Bush administration moved to develop a new package of sanctions was precisely that the current regime is full of holes, widely unpopular and steadily crumbling. Which may be why Saddam and even some of those states more sympathetic to Iraq's plight may be in no rush to reform them...
...offer to share a little of the NMD pork with Russia's arms industry, Moscow is likely to dig in its heels against any abrogation of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, more confident now that the Senate will restrain Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from any precipitous rush to tear up the treaty and build a missile shield...