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Language at gay civil rights forum at issue

September 15, 2008

By J. FERGUSON

Barb White’s voice broke and as she addressed Tuesday’s forum on a proposed gay civil rights ordinance for Flagstaff.

“I’ve walked the streets of Flagstaff and I don’t feel in danger of harassment, “White said. “I am terrified right now by the intolerance that I am hearing in this room.

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OJ prosecutor says evidence will show threats

By KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS – A prosecutor told jurors Monday they will learn “the true face” of O.J. Simpson during the former football star’s trial on charges of robbing sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.

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Troubled economy

The Wall Street mess is having a national impact the legal community, including Arizona. Best of luck to everybody out there after reading the article.

“Work, Jobs Drying Up for Firms in Wake of Wall Street Mess, Says Orrick Lawyer”

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The fate of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch has everyone speculating about the state of the U.S. financial sector, especially Am Law 200 lawyers.

We checked in with Alan Pomerantz, partner in charge of the New York real estate practice group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and a former chair of the global property and finance practice group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges for 11 years, to talk about how law firms will be affected by the current economic crisis.

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Tainted milk sickens more than 1,200 babies in China

The number of infants Chinese health officials say were sickened by tainted milk powder doubled Monday to more than 1,200 as police announce the first arrests in the spreading scandal.

The Health Ministry said a second infant had died of kidney failure after drinking Sanlu brand milk powder spiked with the industrial chemical melamine. The company says suppliers who sold the raw milk apparently added the chemical, normally used in plastics, to make the milk seem higher in protein.

Vice Health Minister Ma Xiaowei told reporters at a news conference that 1,253 infants had been sickened — mainly after developing kidney stones — more than twice the number previously acknowledged. Of those 913 of the infants were only slightly affected, while 340 remained hospitalized and 53 cases were considered especially severe, he said.
“Wherever cases are found, we’ll bring out experts and resources to bear in treating the victims,” Ma said.

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Health care facilities flushing pharmaceuticals down the drain

U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America’s drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.

These discarded medications are expired, spoiled, over-prescribed or unneeded. Some are simply unused because patients refuse to take them, can’t tolerate them or die with nearly full 90-day supplies of multiple prescriptions on their nightstands.

Few of the country’s 5,700 hospitals and 45,000 long-term care homes keep data on the pharmaceutical waste they generate. Based on a small sample, though, the AP was able to project an annual national estimate of at least 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals and contaminated packaging, with no way to separate out the drug volume.

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