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...including The Crimson last week—and force big-name animal abusers to clean up their acts. In 1993, PETA persuaded General Motors to stop using pigs and ferrets in crash tests; in 2000 and 2001, the organization forced McDonald’s and Burger King to set stricter regulations in its slaughterhouses...
...sort of marketing that some in Delaware do, he tells Time, "it would make headlines in the newspapers." That may be an overstatement. While Delaware markets itself aggressively to U.S. and foreign corporations, firms based there are still subject to U.S. federal legislation and regulatory controls far stricter than those in most havens. Because of that regulation, Delaware isn't viewed as a potential problem by most Americans. But Kelly's gripe stands: if you don't crack down on everyone, there's almost no point in cracking down on anyone. At a tense meeting in Ottawa last October...
...fact, drug-safety regulation is often stricter overseas than in the U.S. Through the 1990s, Bristol-Myers Squibb marketed its antidepressant, Serzone (its chemical name: nefazodone), with ever growing success. In a typical earnings announcement released in July 1996, Bristol-Myers, which had revenue of $19.9 billion for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2003, declared that "sales of central-nervous-system drugs rose, particularly on the strength of STADOL NS, an antimigraine product, and Serzone, an antidepressant treatment with a low incidence of side effects." The next year, medical studies were released claiming "Serzone to be superior to Prozac...
...Harvard adopted a blanket policy on internal recruiting, which stated that the University could not discriminate in its own hiring practices. But the University has never adopted such a policy for outside recruiters, and since 2002, when the Department of Defense implemented a stricter enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, the military has been allowed to recruit...
...done little to change bad habits; up to October, 5,035 fines were issued, compared to 3,818 for all of last year. In Japan, an $84 fine for car accidents caused by mobile phones has netted only 120 offenders a year. So police are reportedly planning stricter laws for 2004, to punish offenders on sight. In July, Italy increased fines to $83 and added a five-point deduction from an offender's license. In 2002-03 there were 330,384 fines; in the first month under the new law, just 106 tickets were issued. In June, Vietnam made handheld...