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"In response to efforts to regulate the content of TV ads for drugs, Billy Tauzin, president of the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the lobbying organization for the drug companies, was quoted by the New York Times (May 17, 2005) as having said, "We don't make ice cream or handbags or automobiles, we make products that save lives" ("Drug Industry Is Said to Work on Ad Code"). The argument drug manufacturers make for the high cost of their products, which has become an old saw by now, is that the money supports research and development of new life-saving meds." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The advent of refrigeration, supermarkets and family automobiles abetted the urban availability of fruits—although taste quality suffered. An influx of 7 million Italians (mainly in between 1880 and 1921) also had a major impact on American eating habits and agriculture. Their love of produce was contagious. Until the twentieth century, much fruit in Britain rotted on the trees. Adding to the fruitlessness was England's damp climate, unsuitable for drying fruits in the sun. In the 1890s, the apple became Britain's national fruit. The government started an "Eat more fruit" campaign." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Recipes for Disaster Carbon dioxide is just one unwanted waste product of our industrialization. automobiles, power stations, and chemical plants pour poisonous gases into the atmosphere, to fall later as acid rain. As the acidity of rivers, lakes, and soil rises, the fauna and flora suffer. In Central Europe, as many as half the trees have suffered or died, and the damage in Eastern Europe, where pollution has been more severe, has been even more disastrous. In Scandinavia, entire lakes are dead. And we are only just beginning to recognize the effects of acid rain on human beings." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Sturdier ships, railways, and later automobiles and planes gave us far greater freedom of movement and allowed industry to use resources from all over the globe. Medical discoveries relieved us from the scourge of many diseases, freed us from much physical pain, and helped us recover from physical injury. In these and other ways, the Industrial Revolution liberated us from many of the constraints of our bodies and from many of the limits imposed by our environment. Today, information technology is leading to an emancipation from work itself." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"People who lifted automobiles from the ground long enough to free those pinned beneath them ?The boy in Neville's office who wanted a collie puppy One way we apply the logic patch in our lives is when we see another person accomplish something that we believed impossible. Although there may be no "logical" reason why we can't do something, if no one has done it before, a seemingly difficult feat can create such a strong belief in our minds that we begin to believe that it's impossible . . . that is, until someone proves us wrong." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The good news is that traffic accidents would be virtually impossible: automobiles ?and passengers ?could collide harmlessly at any speed.39 Elsewhere, in an article about future space travel, Clarke wrote: 'If I was a NASA administrator ... I'd get my best, brightest and youngest (no one over 25 need apply) to take a long, hard look at Puthoff et al.'s equations.'4?Later, Haisch, Rueda and Daniel Cole of IBM would publish a paper showing that the universe owes its very structure to the Zero Point Field." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"They paid twice as much for their prescription medicines that year as they spent on either higher education or new automobiles. The American prescription drug market is so lucrative that many foreign drug companies have moved in and now depend on Americans for most of their profits. For foreign executives, the math is simple. Americans spend more on medicines than do all the people of Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina combined." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "While the operating principles of a fast-food restaurant may work when you sell grande lattes or change oil in automobiles, there are dangers in reorganizing medicine for speedy and easy mass consumption. Medicine is a complex art that cannot easily be reduced to a cookbooklike checklist that can be applied to every patient. Such standardization may help a teenager assemble a bacon double cheeseburger, but it leaves room for potentially deadly mistakes when used to diagnose and treat an ailing human being." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"But, if we wish to consider whether 106 the Internet is a cornrnunications and distribution system that will produce/aster economic growth than in the past, we have to compare it with similar systems of the past, such as those represented by postal services, railroads, telegraph, telephones, automobiles, aircraft, radio, and express highways. All of these networks had profound effects on the economies of their days, helping transform their economies from a much more primitive state." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Good roads and fine automobiles are opening the countryside. The urge is toward suburban living and for houses with three or four bedrooms instead of one or two."22 The increase in the use of consumer credit was also cited, as it had been in the 1920s, as a reason to expect prosperity: "This willingness to lay out cash amounted, in the opinion of one influential Washington individual, to a 'consumer spending revolution.'... In spending his money, the average individual's wants have gradually been upgraded." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Again in the first place, of course, it is the top-executives who get fantastic salaries, stock-options, bonuses, automobiles, travel-allowances and incentives. How much? A great deal! In Europe, in 2004, three out of eleven highest paid executives were pharmaceutical bosses. The magazine DER SPIEGEL estimated that Novartis paid his top-manager 12.75 million Euros (18.48 million dollars a year), Aventis paid 8.78 37 Zocor is used to reduce the total amounts of LDL (bad) cholesterol, triglycerides (another type of fat) and apolipoprotein B (a protein needed to make cholesterol) in the blood." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"I shared the principle of resonance with her and how we're tuned to our world, our automobiles, our homes, and even our pets. I offered a number of case histories where animals have been documented to take on their owners' medical conditions weeks or even months before the same problems were found in the bodies of the people who cared for them. My sense was that something similar was happening with Corey and my mom. After some convincing that life is full of such messages, Mom agreed to get a checkup for herself the following week." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Drugs are now the second most advertised product in America, after automobiles.111 And whereas the money spent on advertising cars went down in 2006, the money on shilling drugs has gone up. But even before the TV ads, the marketers of Prozac fundamentally changed how drugs were defined. Before Prozac, the brand names of drugs were generally some simplified version of their scientific and generic names. For example: haloperidol (generic name) became Haldol (brand name)." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"It seemed to be driven by a new era story that, after World War I, people with the new wealth and automobiles of the Roaring Twenties were just discovering the possibility of commuting to Florida for the winter, and the land was selling fast. People who believed this story might have felt some urgency to buy. Another precipitating factor for this bubble was the 1924 Florida constitutional amendment prohibiting income and inheritance taxes, a factor encouraging wealthy retirees to relocate to Florida, as well as an extensive advertising campaign by the Miami Chamber of Commerce." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"If chronic suppression of negative emotions could cause us to wheeze, develop high blood pressure, and crash our automobiles on the highways, could it also cause us to grow tumors? Did there exist, in other words, not just an "accident-prone" personality but a "cancer-prone" personality? Many thought so. As early as 1940, W. H. Auden had captured the emerging psychoanalytic consensus on what such a person might be like." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Supporting scientific research became a responsibility of government, while American technological know-how—along with the destruction of Europe's economies during World War II—allowed American factories to produce more than half the world's goods, and 80 percent of its automobiles. Medical research held a special place in the scientific pantheon. Americans literally rejoiced in the streets at the news that Jonas Salk had created a vaccine for polio. By 1960, the insecticide DDT had eradicated malaria from the United States, along with yellow fever." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The report asserted that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 88,000 people per year (the sixth to the eighth leading cause of death), more than killed by automobiles.5 Most errors involved the inappropriate administration of medication. Several medical experts challenged the study, claiming that the findings were grossly exaggerated. Yet research in 2002 corroborated the estimate, claiming that "fully 34% of all doctors said that either they or members of their family had experienced serious medical errors... with serious health consequences."6 Nor is our list complete." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Mention magnesium, and many people conjure up images of a hard, silvery alloy used to fashion parts for aircraft and automobiles, or machinery that needs to resist corrosion. Mention it as a pain reliever second to none and people will scratch their head and wonder what's wrong with you. But medical scientists from the Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Management, University Hospital Lewisham, London, think the beneficial effect of magnesium in terms of pain management may result from the physiological action of magnesium as a non-competitive antagonist of the NMDA-receptor." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Green cities won't matter if they're populated with conventional gasoline automobiles. Fortunately, there's cause for (cautious) hope. China's auto designers are working on vehicles that could dramatically cut oil consumption—priced to appeal to leapfrog [see Leapfrogging, p. 292] nations around the world. The Wuling SunShine is a small van that runs about five thousand dollars in total cost and gets about Volkswagen lot, Shanghai, China, 2005." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Private automobiles (taxis, buses, motorcycles, and bicycles are exempt) entering the city's bustling central zone during its most congested hours are charged an £8 (U.S.$14) fee, payable online or at kiosks, according to the Greater London Authority's Transport for London Web site. A network of cameras around and in the zone feeds images to a central bureau, where an optical recognition system notes license plate numbers. Drivers who haven't paid in advance are "dinged" extra fees. Trying to beat the system altogether results in a fine of up to £1 50 (U.S.$267)." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"A similar situation might occur if American auto manufacturers decided to omit a gas gauge from new automobiles. The American Automobile Association could step up to sell flexible sticks for determining the fuel level in your gas tank. But ultimately, if you ran out of gas, the problem was yours alone. The Damages of "Tight Control" A recent continuing education course on 2 was taught by a renowned researcher, and I took the position of a fly on the wall. The class dealt with microvascular complications and clinical therapies." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "Suppose all Ford and General Motors automobiles with excellent safety and service records were removed from the marketplace, leaving an inventory of low-end cars with bad safety and service rankings. Eventually, when each company introduced a new automobile at a significantly higher price, the makers could state the prices are warranted. Consumers could choose between a new, higher priced vehicle (with an unproven safety and service record) or they could purchase cars with known inferiorities. (The absence of Dodge, Toyota, Nissan, etc. from the American marketplace might also be noted." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"It is not only overcrowding that facilitates the spread of influenza; the massive movement of people, legally and illegally, across borders and within nations by airplane, sea travel, trains, and automobiles may spread a pandemic faster than infected birds can fly. Another health concern in China is the loss of sunlight caused by burning coal that most Chinese use as fuel in cooking. Much of China is shrouded in gray from air pollution caused by nitrogen dioxide and the problem is getting worse even with cleaner coal technology. In fact, 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Americans often travel alone in isolating automobiles rather than using transportation conducive to meeting people and having face-to-face conversations. However, human beings are social creatures, and our well-being requires human contact, friendship, and intimacy. Societal and cultural arenas such as family life, mental health institutions, schools, and economic systems influence just how much value people truly place on human relationships. It is not simply the lack of time that American families spend together that gives them an F in human relationships." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"They have partnerships now with Daimler-Chrysler to produce fuel-cell automobiles. And U.S. cars will not be sold in China because they don't meet Chinese emission controls. So you see how we shoot ourselves in the foot over and over again. "What I'm trying to do is get the most leverage that I possibly can. The way you get the most leverage on social change is to alter the 'source code' that's running the country. As I say, we have a malfunctioning economic source code." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Because fringe living forces most of these responsibilities to be met by driving automobiles longer and longer distances, the inevitable result is stress, fatigue, and less time with family." Superbiah 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann (New Society Publishers, 2003) Many inhabitants of suburbia would like to see a stronger sense of community and more environmentally sound design in their neighborhoods. Part of the answer is to cooperate within our communities, creating solutions that are hard for any individual to do alone. Superbia!" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Back then, too, ships plied the seven seas, laden with pineapples and bananas from plantations in Latin America, tea from India, rubber from Malaysia, tobacco from Virginia, and automobiles from Detroit. Even today, Trenton, New Jersey, hangs on to its old motto—now rusty and fraudulent?Trenton Makes, the World Takes." In the 1920s, it was burnished and true. Globalized commerce created a boom in Trenton back then. Products from the town and its hinterland were loaded onto transport and shipped all over the world. Prices for Trenton's properties and Trenton's companies soared." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Americans spent $213.7 billion on prescription drugs in 2004, according to Table 2.4.5U, but this amount does not include drugs used in hospitals and other such facilities. 5 Americans spend more on medicines than do all the people of Japan: According to statistics from IMS Health's "Retail Drug Monitor: 12 months to Feb. 2005." Available at imshealth.com. 5 65 percent of the nation now takes: "Outpatient Prescription Drug Expenses in the U.S. Community Population, 2003," Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Chartbook No. 16. Available at meps.ahrq.gov. 5 build their laboratories on . . ." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The truth is that many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do of our bodies. When we go to the gas station we fill up the tank and stop when it is full. Indeed, our cars even have gauges that reflect true need; nobody would tolerate a broken gas gauge. We don't overfill, letting gas spill onto the streets and sidewalks, creating a public health risk. Nobody believes that we must get some gas in order to keep our engine's metabolism stoked when the gas gauge says we still have half a tank." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"We've all heard the stories of the inventors who had carburetors that would make automobiles run a thousand miles to a gallon of gasoline. We've heard that the automobile industry paid off those inventors with millions of dollars to secure the patents and then buried those patents and never used that technology. Why? Because it would cost the automotive industry billions of dollars in profits. We all know the story of how the big three automobile manufacturers purchased the Redline Train System in California, only to dismantle it to make sure that more automobiles were sold." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

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