CHICAGO - Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has prompted outcry and lost members over its new six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola Co. The deal will fund educational materials about soft drinks for the academy's consumer health and wellness Web site, http://www.FamilyDoctor.org.
Every time I hear about Joe Lieberman's latest apostasy, I think, Oy vey! There he goes again. More Joementum.
Where are those lawsuit abuse groups when you really need them?
We can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests over rising carbon emissions. We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install compact fluorescent light bulbs. We can compost in our backyard.
At noon tomorrow thousands of activists will swoop on London for this summer's
Climate Camp.
Robert Benmosche is a veteran of the corporate wars and the insurance industry's greed-fest. The former MetLife exec is now the new CEO of the beleaguered AIG, and recently he held an employee town hall to introduce himself to the troops.
Every
day legal corporate behavior causes much more damage to the commons
than corporate illegal behavior. Electricity generators do not
break the law when they emit billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere
every year warming the Earth to dangerous levels. No law is broken
when automobile manufacturers put out millions of vehicles that contribute
to the same problem. Tobacco companies do not break the law when
their products kill nearly 5 million people a year. Consumer goods
companies are within the law when they buy from third world suppliers
who operate sw
To advocate a new, robust stimulus package, as in my last column, invites some predictable comments. Government is inefficient, politically motivated in its choice of winners and losers, and out to pad its own wallets.
There's a joke going around that Starbucks has so saturated the coffee market that it is now opening new Starbucks stores inside its old stores.
Well, not quite — not yet — but the corporate coffee colossus is presently trying to expand through an equally bizarre marketing strategy: By disowning its globally ubiquitous brand name.
I grew up in a home where family
meals were the norm. Nearly every night, nine of us would crowd around
the kitchen table to enjoy a home-cooked meal together, recount our
days, laugh and argue, celebrating each unique personality's contribution
to the whole. Each meal made the fabric of our family stronger. Those
experiences have stayed with me as I've grown and started a family of
my own, where I happily continue the tradition of sitting down together
nightly to share a meal and exchange stories.
