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Though the FBI has been worried that the scene at Justus could become a magnet for armed fringe groups, representatives of the self-proclaimed militias around the Western states have also been denouncing the Freemen as ordinary criminals. "Those people are crooks," says Bob Wright, who leads a militia unit in New Mexico. "This is not a militia issue...
...disease has killed more than 150,000 head of cattle. Some scientists have maintained for years that BSE could cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which generally affects older people, causing symptoms similar to Alzheimer's. Last week's announcement was made by the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, in Edinburgh. Press reports identified 10 victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, all under the age of 42. They most likely contracted the disease through contact with BSE. Eight of them have died, and the remaining two are gravely ill. All 10 are believed to have come in contact with the virus before...
...letter but also at the fact that the newspapers published it without labeling it advertising. Worse, in J&J's view, at the bottom of the ad was a message that Whitehall-Robins Healthcare was underwriting the reprint "as a public service." Not exactly, since it's the unit of American Home Products that makes Advil...
...scorched-earth campaigns have pointed out the hazards of widely used headache remedies such as Tylenol and Advil as dramatically as any critic could. And that can't be good for business. J&J's McNeil Consumer products unit, which makes Tylenol, has sold 240 billion tablets and capsules of Tylenol over the past three decades. Tylenol represents more than $800 million in annual sales for J&J, which last year had total sales of $18.8 billion. But Tylenol's market share has been slipping, to 30.1% last year from...
...police battalions, which played a major role in rounding up the Jews of Eastern Europe and shipping them to death factories like Auschwitz and Treblinka, were mostly composed of military reservists. Of the 500 or so officers and men who served in 1942 with one typical unit that Goldhagen details, Police Battalion 101, only 21 belonged to the Nazi elite force known as the SS. That year the battalion participated in a roundup of Jews from the Lublin region of Poland. Thousands were hunted down and slaughtered in execution orgies that left the police splattered with the blood and brains...