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Every notice that the 2 quart container of Orange Juice is really less than 2 quarts, or the pint of Hagen Daz ice cream is really 14 ounces. These are changes made by big food companies to raise prices without the appearance of raising the price. The package size is close enough to the original [...] There are plenty of reports of people suing some drug company when they or their children were either harmed or allegedly harmed from some vaccine that was administered. Maybe what we need are lawsuits and criminal punishment when parents do not immunize their children for deadly diseases. There are a whole group of parents who [...] Regularly on business news programs there are comments about how bad the last day, weekend, or month was because of some weather event(s) and how this ruined retail sales for that period. I view this negativism as mostly bunk. It snows over a weekend, and magically whatever money people planned to spend during that period [...] I wonder if we as a society have gotten to the point that we no longer accept insanity as a defense in court. 50 years ago everyone would have been exposed to individuals with psychological problems. Today due to modern drugs we have dramatically reduced the number of people who outwardly appear to have problems. [...] There is a great deal of controversy regarding “No Child Left Behind.” The largest part of the legislation is using standardized tests to measure whether specific was learned. Critics primary objection is that teachers are now teaching to the standardized tests used to measure results as opposed to encouraging more abstract thinking. The critics are [...] |
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