FDA poised to regulate cigarettes and tobacco products nationwide
The FDA moves to control manufacturing and advertising of cigarettes and tobacco products, banning terms like light and tar, flavorings, and requiring FDA approval for new items. The law creates an FDA tobacco center funded by industry fees, with projected modest cuts in youth and adult smoking and a focus on disclosing carcinogens and toxins.
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Surgeon General
U.S
House
Senate
Barack Obama
Congressional Budget Office
FDA
Obama
Capitol Hill
Philip Morris
FDA Tobacco Control Center
Lorillard
Congress
Oil price paradox shows limits of cheap gas
The Texas and national oil picture blends rising crude above seventy dollars with weak demand and full inventories. Speculators and a recovering global demand outlook drive a price up and oil firms return to crude investments while EIA revises 2030 production projections downward to about 93 million barrels daily. Michael Klare notes the shift in forecasting and urges both efficiency and new drilling to balance the energy future.
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Texas
Michael T. Klare
Klare
Federal Energy Information Administration
EIA
Houston Chronicle
Notable Pulitzer Tribute Page Motto from Odessa Star
The Odessa newspaper presents a 1988 Pulitzer Prize tribute page featuring editor and publisher credits, with commentary on freedom and self-control. It proclaims that peace begins with the individual and that freedom is a divine gift aligned with moral guides.
Charen Mona Charen on Iran's upheaval and Mousavi's rise
The piece profiles Mir Hossein Mousavi as the unlikely focal point of Iran's post election protests against Ahmadinejad. It notes Mousavi's background as prime minister, his role as symbol of reform, and the uncertain path ahead for Iran's clerical regime amid global attention and domestic unrest.
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Mir Hossein Mousavi
Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Syria
Bashar Assad
Ahmadinejad
Ayatollah Khomeini
Mousavi
ABC Turns Programming Over To Obama in White House Style
Susan Estrich argues the press risks becoming embedded with power as ABC plans a White House anchored program. She notes test audiences, political optics, and the danger to an independent free press while praising anchors Gibson and Sawyer.
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Matt Drudge
ABC
Obama
White House
Lesley Stahl
Reagan
The
Charles Gibson
Diane
Sawyer
Obama White House
Iraq
Juneteenth Celebration Acknowledged By Odessa American
Odessa American praises this year’s Juneteenth celebration and invites reader opinions on current topics via email, welcoming both positive and negative comments and noting a thumbs nomination process.
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