Word: poste
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...lobbying against an amendment to an agriculture spending bill currently before the Senate that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Mexico and Canada. Relaxing restrictions would lead to the import of killer counterfeit drugs, the PhRMA warns in a full-page ad in Wednesday's Washington Post. Not only that, "the importation of prescription drugs also means spoiled, adulterated, impotent or subpotent medicines making their way into American medicine cabinets." But critics believe they're simply covering up for price-gouging, and have adapted the amendment to allow for greater FDA screening. And in a sharp back...
...notebooks are vital to understanding Graham's outlook on life. His half brother Phil married Katharine Meyer, whose father owned the Washington Post, and the couple were at the epicenter of the Washington social whirl of the 1960s. But at 49, Phil, a manic-depressive, killed himself. Bob Graham was 27 at the time. "Phil's legend was both inspiring and intimidating," says a person who knows Graham well and asks to remain anonymous. "After you see your brother commit suicide, one of the things you seek is control. No wild behavior, no profanity, no risk, loudness or recklessness...
...fired off "Corrections the Scientologists Made Us Run," including "Tom Cruise does not stand on a phone book whenever he and Nicole Kidman are photographed together. Instead she stands in a hole." It greeted Oprah Winfrey's O magazine with J: the Jerry [Springer] Magazine and has also posted Misfortune, a post-market-crash version of a certain TIME Inc. publication ("Rightsizing your family: Does your household have more mouths than food?"). It has even parodied parodies, spoofing how Budweiser's "Wassup?" ads have been overspoofed with a version that ends, "We're sick of this joke...
Sources: UNAIDS, Washington Post; New York Times; International Transport Workers' Federation; AmericaChews.com
...Slow progress at Camp David may be just fine with the fiscal-discipline crowd on Capitol Hill. Notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to spending taxpayers' money abroad, some Republican legislators were apoplectic at the weekend when the Washington Post reported that both Israel and the Palestinians are expecting the U.S. to pick up the tab for peace, which could run well over $15 billion. That bill would cover the cost of redeploying and re-equipping the Israeli military to cope with new, substantially more vulnerable borders, as well as the cost of Israel's compensation to Palestinian refugees...