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    Importing Drugs

    Mar 12, 2004 05:00 AM EST

    ... large. SUSAN DENTZER: Others, like Winnipeg pharmacist Michele Fontaine, disagree. She says the Internet pharmacies have contributed to drug shortages, affecting pharmacies like hers that cater to Canadians. MICHELE FONTAINE: They've gone to order medication and there's none. They can't get it because it's been pulled ...

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    California Recall Revelations

    Oct 03, 2003 04:00 AM EST

    TERENCE SMITH: But you, Debra Saunders, do support the idea of recalling Governor Davis? DEBRA SAUNDERS: You know something, I have been against the recall from the start. I thought it looked like sour grapes. I don't believe in recalling someone unless there's been some new horrible scandal ...

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    Green Market: Recycled Consumer Products

    Jul 02, 2001 04:00 AM EST

    ... S. public lands; offer products with at least 50% post-consumer recycled content-- products that would include paper already used by consumers and gathered for recycling-- and to phase out everything made from 100% virgin wood fiber; make 100% post-consumer paper available; educate employees, customers, and suppliers on the ...

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    In Memoriam: Poet A.R. Ammons

    Feb 27, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    ROBERT PINSKY: On Sunday, the wonderful poet A.R. Ammons died. Ammons won many prizes for his poetry, including two National Book Awards: One for his collected poems in 1973, and 20 years later in 1993 for his book-length poem, "Garbage." In his work and personally, Ammons never had ...

  • Persistent drought and overdevelopment cause record low water levels for tens of millions

    Persistent drought and overdevelopment cause record low water levels for tens of millions

    Mar 13, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    ... that we're really facing is a very solvable problem. Stephanie Sy: The solutions, Porter says, include what Arizona's big cities are already doing, upcycling water, reclaiming it, conserving it, and moving it to where it's really needed. Whether that includes the Rio Verde Foothills, where Karen Nabity ...

  • Recalling influential people who died in 2021

    Recalling influential people who died in 2021

    Dec 30, 2021 10:22 PM EST

    George Segal, 87. The banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and worked into his late 80s on the ABC sitcom "The Goldbergs." March 23. Complications from bypass surgery. Jessica Walter, 80. Her roles as a scheming matriarch ...

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    Restoring the San Joaquin River and Recalling Its History

    Jul 12, 2013 09:07 PM EST

    ... but the Delta as well. And those efforts have cast new attention on the human as well as the ecological history of this fascinating and watery part of California. The state has funded scientists from the San Francisco Estuary Institute to reconstruct an image of the Delta's pre-Spanish ...

  • WATCH: Jason Carter honors his grandfather Jimmy Carter's life, legacy in eulogy

    WATCH: Jason Carter honors his grandfather Jimmy Carter's life, legacy in eulogy

    Jan 09, 2025 06:09 PM EST

    ... grandfather Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral. Watch Jason Carter's eulogy in the player above. Jason Carter emphasized that his grandparents were “regular folks,” recalling his grandfather’s outfit of choice as “'70s short shorts and crocs” and their home decorated with fishing trophies, family photos on the refrigerator ...

  • Western allies must keep aiding Ukraine as he meets European partners before election, Biden says

    Western allies must keep aiding Ukraine as he meets European partners before election, Biden says

    Oct 18, 2024 03:12 PM EST

    ... Merit, which was also bestowed on former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in recognition of his support for German reunification. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the friendship with the U.S. is “and will always be existentially important” for Germany, but there have always been “times of ...

  • News Wrap: Michigan jury convicts 2 men for plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer

    News Wrap: Michigan jury convicts 2 men for plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer

    Aug 23, 2022 10:55 PM EST

    ... homes being damaged or impacted in some way. John Yang: Recent days have also seen flooding across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, in Utah, the waters cascading down canyons, while flooding swept through streets in Moab. Person: Unbelievable. There is the diner. John Yang: For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm ...