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...section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town of Cartagena, U.S. officials said reassuringly. But you can never been too careful in a country overrun by narcoterrorists: Colombia deployed 5,000 soldiers and police to protect the presidents, assisted by some 200-400 American security agents. A good thing, too - at just about the time Clinton...
Lieberman is also a top recipient of money from the drug industry--$91,000 in this election. Pfizer, which operates a major research facility in Connecticut, flew him on its corporate jet to a lavish resort in West Virginia, where he spoke at a large drug-company gathering in 1998. This treatment has not kept him from pushing for prescription-drug benefits for Medicare recipients--something the pharmaceutical firms fear will lead to government control of their prices. But Lieberman helped pass an amendment that prevented low-priced generic drugs from being made available to consumers earlier; that has helped...
...spraying on their fields. So while many farmers have embraced such crops as Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, with their genetically engineered resistance to Monsanto's Roundup-brand herbicide, that let them spray weed killer without harming crops, consumers have come to regard such things with mounting suspicion. Why resort to a strange new technology that might harm the biosphere, they ask, when the benefits of doing so seem small...
...Says Sundari co-founder Ayla Hussain, who grew up in Pakistan and attended Harvard Business School: "We take ideas that are thousands of years old and use modern technology to maximize their efficacy." Lindsay Oliver, manager of an Ayurvedic spa called the Raj in Fairfield, Iowa, says when the resort opened seven years ago, she couldn't get magazines interested. Now, she reports, "Vogue calls...
ESPN didn't do any better; finally, at 7 in the evening I had to resort to ESPN2 for my Tour coverage (taped, of course, so as not to interfere with the very important synchronized swimming event scheduled earlier in the day). I found the network's recap stirring, if occasionally maudlin, and sniffled a few times as I watched Lance's hapless challengers fall to the wayside as the man of the hour pushed past them as if they were standing still...