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...touted on television or in magazines. Seeing celebrities or other well-known figures endorsing a drug may make a medication all the more appealing. That's why Representatives John Dingell and Bart Stupak, both of Michigan, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee decided last month to investigate how truthful this celebrity-driven drug advertising is - and hope to expose, as in Jarvik's case, instances when the truth is stretched...
...might be expected, the blog has also angered students and administrators for its somewhat relaxed attitude toward the truth...
...think you know climate change. You've seen An Inconvenient Truth. You've noticed the changing and warming weather patterns in your part of the world. You're beginning to suffer from acute ecoanxiety. But to really see global warming in action, you'd need to travel to the Arctic, where climate change is already kicking into high gear. Temperatures are increasing faster in the far north than they are in the more temperate zones in the world, and recent studies indicate that the North Pole could be underwater in the summer in less than 10 years. But seeing...
...global warming. For their generation, says Sam Branson, "climate change is definitely going to be the biggest issue." There's still hope for the worst effects of global warming to be avoided, if we can come together globally, and projects like Steger's can only help. But the truth is that for the Arctic, at least, the sheer momentum of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere means that profound climatic change is virtually unavoidable, no matter what we do. "Within a decade or less, it's going to be impossible to reach the North Pole," says Steger...
...fixed. John Darnielle’s “Heretic Pride” is his fifteenth full album under the name of the Mountain Goats, and it finds the singer-songwriter eager to explore the same ups and downs of domestic living in a way that artfully captures truth. If you closely study the structural skeletons of Darnielle’s songs, you can hear the echoes of a decade’s worth of Mountain Goats tracks. But instead of the intimate string arrangements and piano parts which now accompany Darnielle’s acoustic guitar, the production values...