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...ridiculous for overweight teenagers to sue McDonald's [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The kids say McDonald's didn't adequately warn them that its meals contained lots of fat, salt and sugar. But the teens' obesity and health problems are their parents' fault as well as their own. Their parents should not have let them eat at McDonald's nearly every day for years on end. Children must be taught that some foods are bad for you. Any lawsuit shouldn't be against McDonald's; it should be against the negligent parents. CHARLES KYUNGHWAN KIM Hacienda Heights, Calif...
...investigating the possibility that a Russian scientist, Nelli Maltseva, ferried a nasty strain of smallpox from the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow to Iraq in 1990. She died two years ago.The allegation caused quite a kerfuffle in Russia. Maltseva's daughter Natalia, a cardiologist, has threatened to sue the newspaper for having "blackened her mother's reputation." The institute's current director, Vitali Zverev, says the last time Maltseva handled smallpox was in 1982, which was also the last time she traveled abroad--to Finland, not Iraq...
Each year, three recipients from western Canada are named the Canadian Rhodes Scholars. This year, Jeremy L. England ’03, Sue Meng ’03, Anna K. Weiss ’03 and Lindsey O. Worth ’02 are the U.S. Rhodes winners from Harvard...
...badly their health is ruined," he says. One group of victims, represented by Moscow lawyer Igor Trunov, is suing the city of Moscow for $7.5 million, claiming health damages or compensation for the loss of the sole provider in the family. Others, like Frolova, are also planning to sue. But under Russian law, terror victims are only permitted to sue the local government, while it is the federal authorities whom most of the Dubrovka victims hold responsible. "The operation was launched to wipe out the terrorists rather than to save the hostages," Frolova says, "and it was accomplished with total...
...style really brings his poetry to life,” said Sue W. Schopf, assistant dean of the Extension School. “His bittersweet but witty view of life all came through in his reading...