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...supply of St. John's wort than pony up for a doctor's visit and a prescription for Zoloft. But are all things actually equal? Should the makers of so-called dietary supplements - the myriad capsules, pills and potions found at your local Vitamin Shoppe - be permitted to tout the health benefits of their products without being subject to the FDA review process? And can these supplements be thought of as cures for disease? These are the questions raging around the $6 billion-a-year dietary supplement industry. And supplement manufacturers got a mixed answer Wednesday, when the FDA continued...
...hands of those who opposed Reagan's spending cuts, was also doomed by its association with the President's infamous insistence that as far as school lunchrooms were concerned, ketchup could be considered a vegetable. Today, however, once-skeptical nutritionists are giving soy another chance: Reams of scientific research tout the health benefits of such Thanksgiving newcomers as Tofurky - and the myriad comparable manifestations of the other white protein...
Both candidates tout campaign finance reform as a political cure-all, the argument being that if we can just take big money and special interests out of the picture, we'll return the government to the people. They say special interests have crippled Congress, rendering it unable to make the improvements the public demands in such areas as health care, education and Social Security. The tack appears to be working as polls show both candidate's popularity on the rise in New Hampshire...
...Generally speaking, those most experienced on the council are too entrenched to bring substantive change. Those from the outside tout reform-minded ideas that nevertheless belie confusion about the council's scope and function...
...executive. That's why even the biggest, baddest acts--Nirvana, Snoop Dogg--often clean up their acts to play Wal-Mart. But even that kind of screen isn't enough for parents such as Clarke, who hold Wal-Mart accountable for everything that ends up on the shelves: "They tout a policy that their stores are a safe haven, but they didn't honor...