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A Moral Vacuum
It should not have mattered as much as it did. But by the time everyone had a voice, I was embarrassed and partially annoyed, not so much by what they had said, but why they had to say it. [ more ]
Bluffing With a Pair of Genes
"Got any idea where I can buy a couple of pounds of eagle feathers?"
Marshbaum apparently thought phone chimes and his voice at 5 a.m. was the best way to get my attention."
"Marshbaum,"I explained groggily, "It's illegal to own, buy, or possess eagle feathers." [ more ]
FDA Ban of Ephedra Causes Problems for Customers, Retailers
Outside, on dry-erase boards, hung onto corner windows of the Dynamic Health Center on the main street of Bloomsburg, a small rural town in northeastern Pennsylvania, are two signs. On one, in scrawled letters, is the warning: "Less than 60 Days to Buy Epehedra Pre-Paid While Supplies Last." On the other, customers are advised to "Stock Up. April 12th is Last day to Buy Ephedra. Taking Pre-Paid Orders Now While Supplies Last." [ more ]
Pandering for Profits at the Pageant
The Miss America organization, claiming a "desire to create exciting television,"and pretending to match current TV trends, says its final evening competition, Sept. 22, "has been providing viewers with high stakes reality television since its broadcast debut in 1954."The CEO, a man--there has never been a woman--says the contest is the end product of a year of competition that begins with 12,000 women and culminates with one previously unknown woman, who overnight, becomes an internationally renowned celebrity. That's real reality TV." [ more ]
'Pssst. Cigarettes. One Buck Each'
"Pssst."
I walked straight ahead, looking neither right nor left in a darkened alley illuminated by a quarter-moon.
"Pssst."
I quickened my pace, but there was no avoiding the shadowy figure. [ more ]
Silent Protest, Vocal Response
“Enraged” would be too mild of an adjective to describe the caller to Spectrum magazine, a national award-winning student-produced magazine for the permanent residents of two rural counties in northeastern Pennsylvania.
“Take my wife off of this circulation list. I don’t know how she ever got on!” he demanded. [ More]
The Ching-Chang Chumps
She's a 77-year-old slightly overweight white-haired widowed grandmother from northeastern Pennsylvania who has worked the past 15 years for the state at a minimum wage "Green Thumb"job. But five or six times a year, she and two of her closest friends pay $22 to a bus company that hauls passengers the four hours to Atlantic City. [ more ]
Tragic Inequalities
It happened so quickly—America gained heroes and lost bright, inquisitive, and patriotic men and women. Family members in just an instant plummeted from anticipation to agony. Spouses and children now planned memorial services. America lost 11 souls. [ more ]
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