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...Hired to " educate" us about the drugs and devices they sell, few reps have any education in pharmacology or bio-engineering. They do know the basics we need to use the products: how to dose the drugs, the common side effects and interactions, how to use the equipment, etc. But questions beyond basic ones are usually answered with "I'll have to get back to you on that." They encourage us, though, with smiles, samples and glossy cards with easy-to-understand graphics. Perhaps more encouraging are their compliments and the sheer confidence they exude in the fine, expensive products...
...Voters were unwilling to forgive Gerald Ford for his great act of forgiveness, the unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon. But there was another side to the pardon, the presidency and the 1976 campaign that received much less attention, in part because Ford wanted it that way. The contest between Ford and Jimmy Carter was a battle between two born-again Christians - but only one was willing...
...Hail to the Chief" sounded outside, one last time for the 38th President. Then service members, four on each side, walked the casket to the front of the cathedral, placing it gently on a stand covered in black satin. The choir sang a soothing version of "America the Beautiful...
...personal savings to dramatize the situation of the homeless during a French pre-electoral season in which poverty seems conspicuously absent from the political debate. Since then, additional homeless people have flocked to the site to take up residence in tents provided by other nonprofit organizations. The canal-side site was chosen, explains Jean-Baptiste Legrand, because "it's one of the few places where authorities couldn't send the police in to break it up without chasing the homeless into the water...
...stand and fight, my entire family will have to answer to him." But surely, I asked, the Americans posed a more immediate danger. Abu Mohammed shrugged. "The Americans are over there," he said, pointing a bony finger in the direction of Kuwait. Then he brought the finger to the side of his head and tapped on his temple. "But Saddam is here...