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George W. Bush, friend to Big Business, can't stop the tobacco settlement. But he can still tax the heck...
...president isn't all tax cuts and "give the people back their money" when it comes to the fat settlement that lawyers routinely score when they take on Big Business and win. Certainly not when it comes to the trial lawyers who, after sticking it to Big Tobacco in that 25-year, $200 billion settlement last year, will be taking home $10 billion in legal fees, paid in installments, over the next 10 years...
...wonder so many of those concerned about poverty and hunger are convinced that such crops have a critical role to play in feeding the world. China, one of the first countries to grow genetically engineered tobacco and cotton commercially, is investing heavily in the technology as a way to combat its chronic domestic food problems. C.S. Prakash, a scientist at the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University in Alabama, recently accused anti-GM activists of being "well-fed folk" who "jet around the world" to disrupt technology that will benefit the poor. According to Prakash: "Biotechnology...
What he likes best is dry sex. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, to please men, women sit in basins of bleach or saltwater or stuff astringent herbs, tobacco or fertilizer inside their vagina. The tissue of the lining swells up and natural lubricants dry out. The resulting dry sex is painful and dangerous for women. The drying agents suppress natural bacteria, and friction easily lacerates the tender walls of the vagina. Dry sex increases the risk of HIV infection for women, already two times as likely as men to contract the virus from a single encounter. The women, adds...
...convinced there was a conspiracy in the early 1990's, similar to the tobacco industry, that attempted to expand my TV-watching from the major weekend sports to an almost-daily feeding of games and competitions, most of which I had never seen played in real life. It wasn't a case of supply and demand that led to the plethora of sports-only stations; it was Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch and Dick Ebersol teaming up and creating a demand where none existed before...