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...this election cycle, health care has garnered a lot of attention. But amid the hotheaded debate, one very simple solution to a major health problem in America has never been seriously considered: a tax credit for those responsible enough to watch their weight...
...combat the plague of excess pounds. Public education campaigns, including a very noticeable series of Internet ads depicting the average American’s stomach as an inflatable beach ball, have been a cornerstone of efforts by various government agencies and the Ad Council to increase awareness of the problem...
...conducting their research, Soumerai and his colleagues were confronted with the problem of finding two comparable groups, one exposed to pharmaceutical advertising and the other free from such influence...
...might not work so well,” Soumerai said, listing what he felt were the three main problems of direct advertising. “It potentially wastes billions of dollars, and—the biggest problem of all—it wastes physicians’ time...
...with crime hasn't yet been found. Sklar points out that the 10-block, one-mile area covered by Helena's 24-hour curfew was predominantly "poor and black," suggesting that the curfew could be in violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. And Sklar says the problem goes beyond Arkansas. In Columbus, Ohio, officials are wrestling with questions of whether authorities are unjustly confiscating belongings and subjecting young people to invasive questions in enforcing a long dormant but now revived 34-year-old curfew...