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Following the altercation, officers searched his room in Quincy and allegedly found 38 “hits” of LSD in his dorm room belonging to Duque’s roommate, Soren J. Siebach ’08. Siebach faces additional charges of marijuana possession and committing a drug violation in a school zone, which carries a minimum of two years if convicted...
...week after the first cases were called in to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), health officials have finally found what they believe could be the smoking gun in the 23-state outbreak of spinach-related E. coli poisoning. Until Wednesday, investigators at the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had only suspected that fresh, bagged spinach had caused nearly 150 people to fall ill, and led to one death, from the bacterial infection. Researchers had not been able to trace the bacteria to fresh spinach until they tested one of several opened bags of the leafy vegetable...
...Finally, 6.1 million low-income seniors who used to receive their drugs under Medicaid, which required pharmaceutical manufacturers to offer drugs at their "best prices," have been transferred to the new Medicare drug program, which doesn't have the lowest price requirement. As a result, the pharmaceutical industry stands to make an extra $30 billion over the next decade, according to the report...
...Bush Administration officials point out that the January-June profits cited in the Democrats' report come from drug company sales all over the world. "The global profits of these companies had little to do with the Medicare spending here," argues a Department of Health and Human Services aide, particularly since millions of seniors didn't sign up for the benefit until near the May 15 deadline, five months into the year. Nelligan also says the average premium seniors are paying for the benefit "is almost 25% lower than predicted last year because of aggressive price negotiation and competition...
...Democrats aren't persuaded. The entire program "is a multibillion-dollar giveaway to the drug companies," complains Rep. Henry Waxman, the Government Reform Committee's top Democrat. Ultimately, seniors will decide which party has made the best case when they go to the polls in November...