Archive for September, 2004
Whither the Thirst for Knowledge?
John Heywood, the English dramatist and writer of proverbs (c. 1497-1580) is credited with noteworthy insights into the waste laid by haste and the perils of premature leaps of faith. Among his more prescient aphorisms is the one that goes “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.” In the [...]
Read More..>>A Simple Cure
As a child, it was my humanitarian duty to overeat. If there was food left on my plate after dinner, I was reminded of the starving children in Bangladesh, as if by over-indulging I was helping some under-privileged child in Asia. Some sort of vicarious nutrition, I suppose. Failure to eat might have [...]
Read More..>>Enlightening Our Children
On Saturday, 4 September 2004, the Washington Post ran a story titled “At Teen Magazine, Faith is in Fashion,” about Seventeen Magazine’s recent addition of a faith section. Editor in chief Atoosa Rubenstein was quoted as saying:
“I feel, and had sensed that my readers felt, that there was an entire magazine that wasn’t speaking to [...]
Drug Importation is not the Issue
State and local governments continute to debate the merits of importing pharmaceuticals from Canada. While this is a justifiable attempt to circumvent the artificially high cost of drugs in this country, it is an obfuscation of the true issue.
At its core, this is not a question of FDA authority to regulate drug imports. It is [...]
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