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...their jurisdiction. While this isn't a new issue - states have been grappling with the problems posed by mail-order houses for years - the Web offers a new, more enticing arena for the sale of unregulated products. The new FDA commissioner, Dr. Jane Henney, told TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson that the agency's biggest concern is drug sales on the Web. "It seems like there's almost nothing they can do about it," Thompson says...
Moreover, eBay has exposed America as a nation of collectors. Matchbook covers, cast-iron witches' cauldrons, Pez dispensers, pneumatic grease pumps from the 1920s, Three Stooges memorabilia--you name it, some American somewhere collects it. "We define ourselves by our stuff," says Robert Thompson, president of the Popular Culture Association and a Syracuse University professor who specializes in the study of collectibles. In a democracy, with everyone theoretically equal, people want to be different. We don't have a caste system; we've never had a blood-line aristocracy. We've distinguished ourselves by our cars, by the clothes...
...Thomas Thompson, a New Mexico forensic psychologist, insists that ASPs are "hardwired to act out," and that "they lack free will." His evaluations recently helped convert the sentences of two death-row inmates to life in prison. Yet Thompson's brand of biological determinism sets off alarms for many. "The idea that you're simply born bad is an evil misconception," says Peter Fonagy, director of the Child and Family Center at the Menninger Clinic, who has done a review of conduct-disorder studies for the British government. "We have to look at intervening early and how that can help...
Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson will coordinate the provost's office during what Fineberg expects to be about a month-long absence from his post...
...doctors are optimistic," Thompson said last week. "Harvey was able to get most of the critical business under control before he left this afternoon.... So far everybody seems to think business is in order and we'll be able to manage for a while...