/1998

Many Prostitutes Suffer Combat Disorder, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/18/science/many-prostitutes-suffer-combat-disorder-study-finds.html

In a study to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, researchers interviewed almost 500 prostitutes from around the world and discovered that two-thirds suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. In contrast, the condition is found in less than 5 percent of the general population. Studies of veterans of combat in the Vietnam War have found that the disorder may be diagnosed in 20 percent to 30 percent, about half of whom have long-term psychiatric problems.

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1998 : A Pepsi Fan Is Punished in Coke’s Backyard
▻http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/26/business/the-media-business-a-pepsi-fan-is-punished-in-coke-s-backyard.html

If high school guidance counselors are right and there is a ’’permanent record,’’ this is going on Michael Cameron’s: In 1998, he was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day.

School officials say the shirt was an insult to visiting Coca-Cola executives and ruined a school picture in which students lined up to spell out ’’Coke.’’

Mr. Cameron, a 19-year-old senior, said it was just a joke.

’’In my eyes, I didn’t do anything wrong,’’ he said today while serving his one-day suspension.

Playing God in the Garden - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/25/magazine/playing-god-in-the-garden.html?pagewanted=5

Un article de 1998 : la #FDA compte sur la bonne volonté des Monsanto pour évaluer l’innocuité des #OGM, alors que les #Monsanto affirment que leur boulot à eux est de faire du #profit et seulement de faire du profit.

At the F.D.A., I was referred to James Maryanski, who oversees biotech food at the agency. I began by asking him why the F.D.A. didn’t consider Bt a food additive. Under F.D.A. law, any novel substance added to a food must — unless it is ’’generally regarded as safe’’ (’’GRAS,’’ in F.D.A. parlance) — be thoroughly tested and if it changes the product in any way, must be labeled.

’’That’s easy,’’ Maryanski said. ’’Bt is a pesticide, so it’s exempt’’ from F.D.A. regulation. That is, even though a Bt potato is plainly a food, for the purposes of Federal regulation it is not a food but a pesticide and therefore falls under the jurisdiction of the E.P.A.

Yet even in the case of those biotech crops over which the F.D.A. does have jurisdiction, I learned that F.D.A. regulation of biotech food has been largely voluntary since 1992 , when Vice President Dan Quayle issued regulatory guidelines for the industry as part of the Bush Administration’s campaign for ’’regulatory relief.’’

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I thought about Maryanski’s candid and wondrous explanations the next time I met Phil Angell [Monsanto’s director of corporate communications], who again cited the critical role of the F.D.A. in assuring Americans that biotech food is safe. But this time he went even further. ’’Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food,’’ he said. ’’Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.’s job.’ ’