| A dirty secret about herbal pills could hurt you
During the past year, the FDA has orchestrated eight recalls of "herbal" pills that contained the ingredients found in Viagra, Cialis or Levitra, or their unregulated chemical cousins. •One recall involved a pill called Liviro3. The distributor said he bought the brand name and several thousand pills in 2004 for $450,000. In January, FDA agents seized his stockpile after a lab found that Liviro3 contained tadalafil, the main ingredient in Cialis. The man told the AP he'd had no idea the pills were drug-laced. •One prosecution involved V. Vigor Corp., the Long Island-based maker of Vigor-25. While the product was advertised as containing Asian ginseng, lycium fruit and Chinese yam rhizome, FDA testing indicated that the pills contained Viagra. •Two other pills, Spontane-ES and Stamina-RX, were made by companies run by Jared Wheat, who's facing federal charges in Atlanta that he peddled knockoff pharmaceuticals cooked in a Central American lab.
Senate Panel Rebukes Craig Over Sex Sting
Your claims to the court ... to the effect that your guilty plea resulted from improper pressure or coercion, or that you did not, as a legal matter, know what you were doing when you pled guilty do not appear credible," the letter said.
Kevin Richert, the editorial page editor of the Idaho Statesman, told CBS Radio News he is curious to see how this will play out back in Craig's home state.
"There arent any really new allegations or new revelations but in this case it's coming from the senator's colleagues on Capitol Hill so it will be interesting to see how much weight Idahoans attach to that," Richert said.
The panel also said Craig should have received permission from the ethics panel before using campaign funds to pay his legal bills. Craig, who is not running for re-election, has spent more than $213,000 in campaign money for legal expense and public relations work in the wake of his arrest and conviction last summer.
A New Racial Politics
Not understanding Mississippi race relations, Emmett made a flirtatious comment to Carolyn Bryant, and a week later was found at the bottom of the Tallahatchie River. Upon the insistence of Emmett's mother, his body was brought back to Chicago, the casket open for 50,000 people and reporters to view. It's nearly impossible to tell when a nation is on the cusp of substantial transformation. In fact, when a group of people declares themselves the harbingers of a new era or the vanguards of a social movement it's probably safer to conclude that they're not. So despite attempts throughout the first two decades of the twentieth century, socialism failed in America. And Emmett Till's comment to Carolyn Bryant ended up catalyzing more institutional change in our country than twenty-plus years of socialist orations.
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LAST night after her uncontested "victory" in Florida, Hillary Clinton was introduced by... Alcee Hastings, removed from by the Senate in 1998 after impeachment from* in the House, under a heavy cloud of suspicion of bribery when he was a federal judge. (A bit of the colourful background here.) Bill Clinton pardoned Mr Hastings' alleged co-conspirator on his last day in office. Doesn't Ms Clinton have any slightly less dodgy-looking Floridian backers? Or if slightly suspect they must be, ones whose former associates had not been pardoned from federal prison by her husband? *[Correction: Mr Metcalph is correct. The text has been changed accordingly.] Permalink .
Lose Weight, Conquer World Hunger with www.DonateYourCalories.com
"More than you might guess," says Terry Dunkle, CEO of Diet Power, Inc. His company has launched a new website, www.DonateYourCalories.com, that calculates dollars you'll save and children you can feed with the calories given up during a weight loss diet. Tell this new online computer that you're a 37-year-old, 150-pound woman on a moderate food budget who wants to slim down to 130 by next July 4, for example. Seconds later, it replies that your diet will reduce your grocery bill by $31 a month. Donated to a typical hunger charity using volunteers and surplus food, that's enough to feed two children full-time. "'Donate Your Calories' is our way of helping to erase one of today's greatest ironies," Dunkle says. "While millions go to bed hungry every night, the rest of us are becoming too fat for our own good." Overweight, obesity and inactivity have doubled over the past 30 years, and now rank as one of America's top 10 killers.
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