Word: controller
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...certainly in order for some marketing practices, but entertainment companies could easily argue with the FTC's occasionally alarmist tone and scattered lapses in logic. They could also respond by asking why Gore and Lieberman are concentrating on guns in movies while falling silent on the issue of gun control. Or why Congress has commited itself to video game violence while giving trade benefits to China, where human-rights abuses have escalated (although asking Hollywood to balk at trading with China would be like asking Eddie Murphy to stop making sequels). Instead, Hollywood Democrats are standing rather stoically in this...
...Pius IX [RELIGION, Sept. 4]. Doesn't it seem ridiculous that grown men are digging up dead bodies and making new godlings? At the start of the 21st century, one might hope the church would come to grips with important issues, perhaps even re-examine its opposition to birth control, abortion and divorce. Those three matters alone would alleviate a great deal of suffering. If Pius IX is indeed a candidate for canonization, then Pope John Paul II's recent apology for the church's missteps over the centuries is at best lame and at worst only hollow words. RICHARD...
Global warming is only one among many problems suffered by our planet. Unless we find a way to halt the out-of-control overpopulation of the earth, we are doomed. We are rich and wasteful, yes, but there are far too many of us, and the situation is getting worse each day. DOMINIQUE HUDELOT Vankleek Hill...
EDIBLE SPREADABLES Here's a finding from the Netherlands that may make it easier to swallow cholesterol-busting margarines like Benecol and Take Control. Researchers report that using the plant-derived spreads once a day at lunch seems to drive down bad-cholesterol levels as effectively as consuming them three times a day. The catch: you still have to eat the spreads every day for the rest of your life...
...rallied Thai shareholders in the Regent Bangkok hotel to resist a takeover attempt by U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. Goldman was only able to increase its stake from 34% to 40%, while the remainder stayed with Heinecke and his Thai allies. He believes he will eventually gain majority control...