Word: consumptionism
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"I think we can learn that we should stop being reflexively opposed when someone else does [decriminalize] and should take seriously the possibility that anti-user enforcement isn't having much influence on our drug consumption," says Mark Kleiman, author of the forthcoming When Brute Force Fails: How to Have...
The things that writer Bret Easton Ellis is comfortable with are not the things that most people are comfortable with: hard drugs, greed, outré sexuality, pop music, homicide, the name “Christie”—the 1980s. His novels have returned to these subjects again...
GE's smart meters will be the cornerstone of the program, which is called Energy Smart Miami. While conventional meters do little more than count up the kilowatts sent to a building - they're one-way devices, which means that if a home loses power, the utility doesn't know...
Dr. Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, notes that studies have shown that long-term consumption of sugared drinks can double the risk of diabetes, with half of that risk due to the excess weight brought on by the calories, and...
Other than tax policy, Bush’s efforts in other areas of the economy led to significant successes that have likely mitigated the current recession. Besides the Central American Free Trade Agreement, he more than quadrupled the number of trade agreements between the U.S. and other countries and would...