Over-the-border drugs

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US residents can legally purchase pharmaceuticals in Mexico without a physician's prescription and bring them into the US for personal use. Drugs are 35% to 1000% more expensive in US pharmacies than in Mexican pharmacies, according to a 1991 survey taken among drug stores along Texas-Mexico border. However, many consumers appear to be self-diagnosing and self-medicating, and this worries many public health officials.

Drug stores and proprietary stores, Pharmacies and Drug Stores, Drug Stores, International trade, Mexico, Drugstores

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Hitting it on the nose: a good perfumer distills psychology and anthropology into the essence of desirability

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A perfumer must not only combine 60 or more scents from a field of over 3,000 when putting together a new perfume, but the finished product must invoke in the buyer certain psychological responses. The major ingredients in several perfumes are discussed as to the mood each is to create.

Psychological aspects, Marketing, Column, Perfumes, Perfumes industry

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Across the bitter divide

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One truck exploded and two nurses were hurt during an evacuation in the Croatian town of Vukovar on Oct 19, 1999, while Serb-Croatia war was going on. Serb officers helped by taking the nurses to the nearest hospital proving that even the battle-hardened sometimes have to give life.

Social aspects, Personal narratives, Accidents, War and society, Society, Wars, Medical emergencies

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