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...recognition. One lung collapsed. He had burns on half his body, and the heat fused his vocal cords together. One earlobe was ripped off, both eardrums were ruptured, and his corneas were damaged. His left arm snapped in three places. For 30 days P.J. remained in the intensive-care unit at Children's Hospital of Oklahoma and doctors prepared his grandparents and legal guardians, Deloris and Willie Watson, for the worst: even if he survived the fevers and infections, he would probably suffer brain damage from two gashes in the back of his head...
Though the FBI has been worried that the scene at Justus could become a magnet for armed fringe groups, representatives of the self-proclaimed militias around the Western states have also been denouncing the Freemen as ordinary criminals. "Those people are crooks," says Bob Wright, who leads a militia unit in New Mexico. "This is not a militia issue...
...letter but also at the fact that the newspapers published it without labeling it advertising. Worse, in J&J's view, at the bottom of the ad was a message that Whitehall-Robins Healthcare was underwriting the reprint "as a public service." Not exactly, since it's the unit of American Home Products that makes Advil...
...scorched-earth campaigns have pointed out the hazards of widely used headache remedies such as Tylenol and Advil as dramatically as any critic could. And that can't be good for business. J&J's McNeil Consumer products unit, which makes Tylenol, has sold 240 billion tablets and capsules of Tylenol over the past three decades. Tylenol represents more than $800 million in annual sales for J&J, which last year had total sales of $18.8 billion. But Tylenol's market share has been slipping, to 30.1% last year from...
...police battalions, which played a major role in rounding up the Jews of Eastern Europe and shipping them to death factories like Auschwitz and Treblinka, were mostly composed of military reservists. Of the 500 or so officers and men who served in 1942 with one typical unit that Goldhagen details, Police Battalion 101, only 21 belonged to the Nazi elite force known as the SS. That year the battalion participated in a roundup of Jews from the Lublin region of Poland. Thousands were hunted down and slaughtered in execution orgies that left the police splattered with the blood and brains...