Too Phat

French Anti-Obesity Drug Faces Obstacles

By JAMES KANTER International Herald Tribune

Published: October 31, 2006

PARIS, Oct. 31 — Sanofi-Aventis, the French pharmaceutical company, said today that it could not set a timetable for introducing its new anti-obesity
drug Acomplia in the United States and warned of regulatory obstacles
facing the drug in Germany. The announcement added to the uncertainty
over the drug, a potential blockbuster that analysts say is pivotal to
the company’s future.

Hanspeter Spek, Sanofi’s
executive vice president for pharmaceutical operations, said today that
the company had submitted new information about Acomplia to the United
States Food and Drug Administration
on Oct. 26. He said that though the agency had not called for new
clinical trials of the drug, it was not clear whether it would rule on
the drug soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/

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edumaction

Richard Rodriguez’s life from his youth to adulthood is one of struggle of trying to understand who he is and what education does to young people. I always thought that all parents would be 100% supportive of their  children, especially in poor blue collar working family’s. In my family my Uncle side of the family was just about all tradesman’s working with their hands, which their is absolutely  nothing wrong with  being a blue collar  worker.  However the entire family looked up to my Uncle as the pinnical of the American dream, being the first to go college.  It was noticeable in the amount of  income that my uncle made. But he never flaunted it.   Rodriguez piece opened my eyes to the idea that education can separate family . The idea that Richard read for pleasure instead out of necessity like his parents was  alien to be because my parents always encouraged me to read as much as I could.It never crossed my mind for parents to subconsciously put down the reading process
society. Although the latter seemed to be a negative aspect of his will
to succeed; Rodriguez’s parents wished him to achieve success better
than they did in America. In due time, Rodriguez’s ambition finally
pushed him as a . Rodriguez also worked hard to educate himself by reading an incredible
amount of books, while also being pushed by his parent’s lack of full
assimilation to Americanscholarship student to achieve the success of a controversial author on such provocative topics as Affirmative Action and Bilingual Education.

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MEAT

A growing number of retailers are
making animal-welfare claims on meat and egg packaging, including “free
farmed,” “certified humane,” “cage free” and “free range,” writes Andrew Martin.

The increase in the labels has been driven in part by animal-rights
organizations, but the labels also represent a way for food retailers
to diffentiate themselves from competitors.

Does this labeling trend represents a substantive shift in the food
industry’s treatment of farm animals, or is it a marketing gimmick?

http://www.nytimes.com/

If a consumer wants to be humane, he or she can buy soy-based meatless
burgers, ribs, bacon and other products that are just as tasty but made
without the blood and damage to the environment. How humane is it to
kill an animal when there are foods just as delicious, healthier, and
just as easy to buy and fix? Consumers are getting smarter about
choices, and the people who raise and kill animals are realizing they
are slowly going to lose their businesses to smarter choices.I will most definitely buy products that are labeled in such a manner
to indicate the animal was treated well during its life and was
humanely slaughtered. Enforcing those claims will be something else
entirely, but I would try to find a few select grocers that I have come
to more or less trust. I would pay more for meat and hopefully eat less
of it along the way.

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what I like and dislike

Person theam song: If you asked me 6 mounths ago It would have been Earth, wind and Fire’s song “I like the way you move”. but now that I got Becks new album The Information, it would have to be his song “Elevator Music”. The reason I chose this song is because song is an anigma with a good beat. And thats how I decribe myself, an enigma.

What makes me angry: I don’t get angry at too many  things but I get angry at people who only think about 3 things. Me, Myself and I. when people get older they should start thinking about other peoples fleeings, I thinks it is because are culture of high selfasteem.

Pet Peeves: Telomarketers. do I need to say more.

College experience: I am transfer student, so I’m ajusting to the St. Rose life as a commuter but I am having a better Time here than at the last school I went to.

MY Major: As of now I am a strait History major but I still don’t know what I want to do with my life. I just know I love history.

Favorite commercial: the tabasco sause commercial that shows a moquieto biting a man who conumed alot of tabasco sauce. the moquieto  upon leaving  is egulfed in flames from the sauce.

Most recent shocking pice of news recently: Yeterday I was watching PBS and saw a program that was hosted by Bill Moyer  that showed  there is a division between Evangelical christans. when It comes to the envionment. This because that Evangelical christans tradtionally don’t support the envionmental movement but now some are.

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Spitzer

A Gilded Path to Political Stardom, With Detours

By DANNY HAKIM

Published: October 12, 2006

There could hardly be a more perfect road map to becoming a rich lawyer than the bullet points laid out on Eliot Spitzer’s formidable résumé. There was high school at prestigious Horace Mann, then Princeton and Harvard Law, followed by stints as a prosecutor for Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, and at top law firms like Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps.

But along the way, Eliot Spitzer would deviate from that gilded
path: at age 20 and while still at Princeton, he set off for a summer
in the Deep South to dig ditches and mop rooms at Georgia Tech, before going to pick tomatoes in upstate New York, a trip that he said “opened my eyes into a part of life I hadn’t seen.”

Fifteen
years later, at age 35, he took the biggest gamble of his life, giving
up his job as a corporate lawyer to run for New York attorney general,
a bid many considered preposterous.

What his opponents did not
count on were twin weapons in the Spitzer arsenal: a fearsome ambition
to win, and the millions of dollars that his father, Bernard Spitzer,
brought to bear on his son’s early campaigns.

The money led to accusations, later dismissed by election officials,
that Mr. Spitzer was circumventing campaign finance laws to buy the
race.

He finally prevailed in his second run, and would
transform the position to take on corporate fraud and propel himself to
national renown with his prosecutions of Wall Street investment firms
and the insurance industry.

Now, with a commanding lead in the
polls in the race for governor, Mr. Spitzer stands at the brink of
taking over a state government that is legendary for its dysfunction
and backroom deal-making.

http://www.nytimes.com/

Opinion: Spitzer has a  formidable resume but he still needs to keep his eye’s on the prize to win in november.

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