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Women's Magazines:
A Liberal Pipeline to Soccer Moms
November 21, 1996
High-circulation women's and family magazines use most of their ink to focus on lifestyle issues -- relationships between dating and married couples, parenting, home decorating, fashions and personal care, and dieting. Surprisingly, many also deal with public policy issues relating to government activism and women's and families' health and safety.
A joint Consumer Alert / Media Research Center study of 13 women's and family magazines analyzed the October 1995 through September 1996 issues for their policy-oriented coverage. Part I of the study reviewed whether expansion of government programs was depicted positively or negatively. Part II looked at the magazines' depiction of risk in discussing public policy issues relating to health and safety. The study found:
In the 13 magazines studied, there were 115 positive portrayals of government activism and/or calls for more. There were only 18 negative portrayals and/or calls for less.
Twenty-three stories went beyond promoting bigger government -- they also asked readers to lobby government officials on behalf of expanded government programs.
In 56 articles or mentions of science and risk issues, 35 were one-sided and did not acknowledge a skeptical view that the risks depicted were minor and the alarmist views presented go against mainstream
According to women's magazines, recycling is always good. Out of 15 stories that mentioned recycling, there was not one skeptical argument presented that sometimes recycling is impractical and wastes resources.
Women's magazines featured numerous warnings about unsafe drinking water, yet routinely bashed chlorine as unsafe, even though chlorine provides the most effective protection against waterborne diseases.
Recommendations: Look for balance in coverage of public policy issues. Note who the spokespersons are for a particular point of view. Is there a pattern in who is depicted as the good guys (or gals) and bad guys? Be skeptical of articles that provide only anecdotal information instead of scientific evidence.
Part I: Calling for a Village
"Soccer Moms." This term struck as much fear into the hearts of conservatives during the 1996 election campaign as "Angry White Men" did in liberals in 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that the limited-government policies of the GOP just did not resonate with these suburban housewives, creating a gender gap that cost Bob Dole dearly at the polls.
Why the apparent skepticism among women towards smaller government, especially since in some polls they strongly favor reducing taxes and cutting wasteful spending? Perhaps at least part of the reason can be found in a joint Consumer Alert/Media Research Center study of the publications that Soccer Moms read. Each month, as they perused the pages of their favorite magazines, women were not merely learning new recipes, the latest diet ideas, and how to have better relationships with their husbands or boyfriends; they were also often being told that government was the solution to most of society's problems, and they were being urged to lobby for its expansion.
For the study, Consumer Alert and the Media Research Center analyzed the October 1995 through September 1996 issues of thirteen family and women's publications --
Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Glamour,
Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Mademoiselle,
McCall's, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Weight
Watchers, Woman's Day, and Working Woman.
Overall, there were 115 positive portrayals of government intervention in the market and/or calls for such intervention during the study period. There were only 18 negative portrayals of government intervention and/or calls for cutbacks in government spending or regulation. There were five balanced portrayals of policy issues.
Working Woman and Glamour were the most biased in favor of expanding government. Each had 24 positive portrayals of government activism compared to four negative portrayals.
Good Housekeeping was next with 15 stories promoting bigger government and only three stories promoting smaller government.
Ladies' Home Journal was the most politically balanced magazine in the study. Although the monthly ran ten stories promoting bigger government, it also ran six promoting limited government and ran four balanced stories. Two of the magazines,
Better Homes & Gardens and Prevention, almost completely avoided public policy issues during the study period.
Health Care. Health-related issues brought forth the most calls for government intervention. There were 28 such stories. Seven focused on "drive-through deliveries," in which insurance companies didn't pay for women to stay in the hospital for longer than one day after giving birth.
Good Housekeeping warned that "tiny lives are at risk" and advised readers on "how you can help stop this shocking practice." The magazine provided a form readers could send to Congress to demand regulations extending hospital stays.
Seventeen stories demanded increased federal funding for medical research into everything from AIDS to obesity to breast cancer, with no mention of how this new spending would be paid for. It didn't seem to matter because, according to
Woman's Day, women had a "right" to quality health care. Liberal journalist Margaret Carlson, writing for
Glamour, argued that families did too. Republican Medicare reform efforts, she wrote, would hurt the party with women: "If Granny gets booted out of the nursing home for lack of Medicare funds, it will be the woman of the house who picks her up."
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), and managed care in general, took a beating in family publications. There were nine stories about the horrors people had faced at the hands of heartless health care bureaucracies. None of these stories discussed the health care reform option many market-oriented reformers promote -- Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs). MSA advocates argue that such accounts would put health care dollars in the hands of consumers, giving them an incentive to find bargains and employ preventive medicine. A search of the EBSCO Publishing database found that there were no mentions of MSAs in these magazines during the study period; other magazines mentioned MSAs in 121 articles.
Instead of discussing the problems of systems relying on third-party payers, women's and family magazines often proposed expanding such systems. In the September
Glamour freelance writer Tessa DeCarlo urged readers not to "give up on universal coverage...No reform of managed care can be completely successful as long as more than 40 million Americans don't have any health coverage at all." She also wrote that laws should be changed to encourage more medical lawsuits.
Urging Readers to Lobby. Twenty- three stories went beyond merely promoting bigger government as the solution to problems; they also asked readers to contact Congressmen or other government officials to lobby on behalf of bigger government.
Good Housekeeping provided form letters ("Join the Good Housekeeping Lobby") that merely needed a signature. After a June, 1996 story about Christopher Reeve and his life since his equestrian accident, for instance,
Good Housekeeping provided a letter to Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations. The letter told Sen. Specter: "Please add my name to the list of supporters of increased funding for spinal cord injury (SCI) research during fiscal year 1997."
Other publications, while not going to such elaborate lengths, nonetheless prodded readers into lobbying for bigger government. Three stories highlighted the "These Children Have Faces" campaign. Under the headline "Has Congress Put Children in Danger?" the May
Glamour told readers that the group's founders "devised a plan to let politicians know that children's allies are watching: They're collecting photos of young people, with notes about their parents' fears and hopes, and will deliver the pictures to Congress next month."
Glamour advised its readers on how to participate.
In a November 1, 1995 Woman's Day story about osteoporosis,
Woman's Day told readers to "urge your members of Congress to work for more women's health research funding."
Woman's Day's Dr. Loraine Stern, who writes the "Your Child's Health" column, wrote: "If you agree that immunizations should be fully covered for all children in need, tell your insurance company and your representatives in Washington." In March, Weight Watchers alerted readers to a new advocacy group, the American Obesity Association, whose "first priority is to lobby the federal government to spend more money on obesity research." The magazine then told readers how to get in touch with the group to help.
The September Mademoiselle explained the nuts and bolts of writing a letter to Congress, using the example of a group called 20/20 Vision, which claims to have halted an "environmentally disastrous" plutonium-processing plant through a letter-writing campaign. The October, 1995
Mademoiselle urged 20-somethings to vote, strongly implying that they should support a liberal agenda. "The Contract with America, tax breaks for the rich, the end of public TV -- was this what my fellow Gen-Xers wanted? It's impossible to know, because most of us didn't vote," wrote freelance writer Esther
Promoting Liberal Activists. Well-known liberal activists and political figures were profiled or prominently mentioned 18 times by these magazines. Marian Wright Edelman was the clear favorite, being promoted in
Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Mademoiselle Parents, and
Working Woman. Family Circle seemed particularly enamored with the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) founder, mentioning her on four different occasions. The November 1, 1995 "From the Editor" section featured a prayer drawn from Edelman's latest book; the May 14 issue gave Edelman the magazine's "Lifetime Achievement Award" for such accomplishments as increasing Head Start funding; the June 4 issue promoted Edelman's "Stand for Children" march in Washington. And when the editors of Family Circle picked the 25 best-selling books "that can change your life," a recent Edelman book made the
Good Housekeeping also promoted Edelman's "Stand for Children" march on Washington;
Parents editor Ann Pleshette Murphy pointed out with pride that Edelman won that magazine's first "As They Grow Award," and
Mademoiselle, in a sidebar to a September article about poverty, urged readers to send a check to the CDF and provided the group's address. At no point did any of these publications question Edelman's policy prescriptions. They could have pointed out, for example, that Census Bureau statistics show that child poverty went down every year between 1983 and 1989, when Ronald Reagan's policies, which Edelman opposed, were in effect. But no critic or criticism of Edelman was mentioned.
Some magazines had regular features to highlight liberals.
Glamour's "Women in Washington" column, for instance, reported on the work of female representatives and senators -- but usually only the ones who were working to expand the role of government. One month, the column praised a host of female legislators for increasing funding for child care "during last year's bitter welfare debate." Another column expressed relief that "while members of Congress were slashing funding for almost all federally funded programs last fall and winter, Congresswomen from both parties managed to engineer a triumph for breast-cancer programs." In July, 1996, the column praised Sen. Nancy Kassebaum and Rep. Louise Slaughter for expanding regulation in health care.
The magazines also promoted the liberal agenda by quoting "authorities" from liberal activist groups. Weight Watchers for instance, promoted the views of the Ralph Nader-founded Public Citizen Health Research Group in a May story warning about databases of medical records maintained by insurance companies to evaluate risk. No other counter-source was quoted.
Woman's Day gave kudos to the World Wildlife Fund for protecting rhinos from poachers in Nepal, yet didn't mention private property approaches to wildlife preservation that, for instance, have increased elephant herds dramatically in Zimbabwe, where hunting is permitted as a property right and villagers have incentives to protect their property.
Liberal activists themselves often wrote stories for these magazines. Edelman wrote an essay for
Parents to promote her Stand for Children march. Representative Pat Schroeder explained to
Glamour readers why she was leaving Congress, even though she was "proud to be the sponsor of many bills that helped women and children, including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Women's Health Equity Act, the Violence Against Women Act, and the Women's Economic Equity Act."
Prevention, which usually shied away from outright political stances, nonetheless allowed space in its October, 1995 issue for Hillary Clinton to tout government-run health care. "Taking steps to protect our children's health is one of the soundest investments our nation can make," the first lady opined. "President Clinton has initiated a campaign to improve immunization services, lower costs, reach out to families and ensure that all young children receive the vaccinations they need. In addition, Medicaid has provided millions of young children with important preventive health services."
Two staffers at the magazines even became liberal activists for a time, attending the United Nations' World Conference on Women in Beijing. "What hit me...was the passionate belief shared by women everywhere that we have a right to good health care," wrote Dr. Marie Savard, who penned the "Your Health" section of
Woman's Day, Ladies' Home Journal editor-in-chief Myrna Blyth also attended, writing that the evening after Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech, the American delegation "got into a large circle, held hands and sang some sixties-style folk songs."
There were some conservative and/or Republican women profiled by these magazines, but their political views were often challenged instead of celebrated. Liberal journalist Eleanor Clift, for instance, profiled New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman for the November, 1995
Working Woman. While the story was generally upbeat, Clift took a shot at Whitman's tax-cutting policies: "In order to cut income taxes by 30 percent, she has increased long-term borrowing, reduced payments to public pension funds and cut state aid to local governments. The ripple effect of those steps is yet to be fully realized."
Republican women would often be praised...when they worked to expand the role of government. Senator Nancy Kassebaum, for example, was chosen as one of
Glamour's "Women of the Year" for working to ban assault weapons, for expanding regulation of health care, and for, in general, not being "extreme."
On a more balanced note, Good Housekeeping devoted the back page of each issue to an essay by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan. But Noonan rarely mentioned public policy issues in her essays.
Lost Opportunities. There were numerous stories in which the case that big-government policies hurt consumers, families, and women could have been made, but wasn't. Many articles eagerly announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had just approved a new drug or medical device. The November 1, 1995
Family Circle reported that "the FDA has approved the drug Caverject, which treats impotence, a condition affecting as many as 20 million men." This, the headline declared, was "good news for couples." While it may indeed have been good news for couples at the time,
Family Circle didn't mention those who had been suffering before the FDA had gotten around to approving the treatment.
Only Good Housekeeping condemned FDA policy. The magazine's February, 1996 issue took the agency to task for not allowing the breast cancer Sensor Pad onto the market. "Women are not stupid," writer Laura Muha declared. "They ought to be able to decide whether this is something they want." But
Good Housekeeping didn't ask if other life-saving products were being held up by the FDA.
Another lost opportunity: taxes. There were nine major stories about financially strapped families and the stress this caused family members.
Parents, for instance, labeled the dilemma: "Mommy guilt vs. economic reality." Only one of these stories mentioned the rising tax burden on families. Even that one didn't point out what the Tax Foundation found: that taxes take more from a family than food, clothing, and housing costs combined. No story urged readers to lobby Congress for tax cuts, as these magazines had done for more liberal policies which allegedly would help families.
These magazines also ignored the regulatory burden on women. Only one article, in
Ladies' Home Journal, pointed out that regulations hurt small business owners, many of whom are women. The September issue of that magazine profiled a woman who had owned a garbage-hauling and recycling business, but was forced out of business because of the high costs of government regulation. No story all year pointed out that, according to the Small Business Administration, government regulations cost almost $7,000 per American household, or how such regulations raise the prices of the products women and families buy.
And stories about safety didn't point out that often government policies undermine the safety of consumers. The April, 1996
Better Homes & Gardens, for instance, reported that "the larger your car, the less likely you are to be hurt if involved in an accident. That's the not-so-shocking conclusion of an insurance claim analysis for 1992-1994 models." But the magazine didn't then point out that federal fuel economy regulations encourage smaller, and therefore more dangerous, cars.
"Redbook Strategy." The Clinton campaign understood what an asset it had in family and women's magazines. It pursued, according to
U.S News & World Report, a "Redbook strategy" aimed at courting the demographic group to which most of the readers of women's and family magazines belong. Redbook editor Kate White, in an article about "Why you're the White House's secret weapon," wrote that she was "flattered." But the magazines themselves, by promoting big government, had laid the groundwork for such a strategy to be successful. In doing so, they often misled their readers -- or didn't give them the whole story -- about the downside of government activism for women and families.
Part II: Scaring Women to Death
"Gender plays ... a powerful role in perception of hazards." That was the conclusion of Professor John Graham of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis after the center polled more than 1,000 Americans to find out whether they believe in widely reported, but unproven, "hazards." Graham found that women were more likely to believe such scares were true by margins of 10 points or more, but he couldn't figure out why. "Some suggest that because women give birth, protect, and care for their children, they may naturally tend to be more nurturing than men, therefore they may be more concerned about hazards that may harm their families," Graham speculated. "Another possible explanation is that women are less familiar with science and technology than men, and are generally more fearful of it, especially in relation to nuclear power and chemicals." But Graham ended up concluding that "the role of gender in risk is more profound than can be explained by either the 'nurturing' or 'worldview' hypothesis" and that "more research is needed to understand why gender plays such a powerful role in perception of hazards."
One explanation Graham did not explore is that the reporting about risks in women's magazines may play a role in how women perceive those risks. After all, many women read these magazines not just for recipes and marriage advice but to receive important information about their own and their families' health. In a 1995 survey conducted by the American Dietetic Association, 80 percent of the female respondents said that women's magazines were a valuable source of information for them about nutrition. Overall, women's magazines ranked above TV news, newspaper articles, and even nurses as valuable sources of nutrition information.
Some advocacy groups already recognize that women's magazines can be a valuable ally in promoting their ideological agenda. In
Science Under Siege, Michael Fumento reported that public relations agent David Fenton arranged interviews months in advance with magazines such as
Woman's Day and Redbook to hype the scare he was orchestrating about the pesticide Alar that has now been widely discredited by respected scientists. The magazines readily complied with Fenton in 1989 with headlines such as "The Foods that Are Poisoning Your Child"
(Redbook) and "Are Pesticides Poisoning Our Children?" (Woman's
Mainstream media outlets are not above running alarming stories about unproven risks either, but they usually give at least some space or air time to the other side. Articles in women's magazines, by contrast, frequently don't even acknowledge that there is another side. Many of the stories appear to be spoon-fed to the magazines by activists and go against mainstream science. Yet as the ADA survey suggests, women tend to trust these magazines more than any other type of media. The following examination of how these magazines --
Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Glamour, Good
Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Mademoiselle, McCall's,
Parents, Redbook, Weight Watchers and Woman's Day -- treat certain risk issues indicates that much of this trust is misplaced. (Two of the magazines surveyed,
Prevention and Working Woman, did not report on the risk issues studied here.)
Chemicals and Health Effects. "One of the most overblown risks is that minute quantities of pesticide residues on food are related to human cancer," Harvard's Graham told
Weight Watchers (December 1995) in one of the only articles to put this risk in perspective. Other articles, including one in Weight Watchers itself, indicate that these magazines seem to have learned very little in the seven years since the Alar scare. The National Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious scientific body in the U.S., recently concluded that most "synthetic chemicals appear to be present at levels below which any significant biologic effect is likely, and so low that they are unlikely to pose an appreciable cancer risk." The NAS also pointed out that man-made pesticides are greatly outnumbered by natural pesticides plants make themselves, and that many of these natural chemicals have been found to be just as potent as the synthetic ones.
Nevertheless, according to Graham's poll, around 70 percent of women believe pesticides pose a hazard (compared with less than 60 percent of men), and an examination of this issue's coverage in women's magazines helps explain why. Of the 15 stories on claims of serious health effects from chemicals, eight of the stories were completely one-sided and mentioned no skeptical arguments against the claims. Three of the stories mentioned opposing arguments, but did so in a superficial manner. Only 4 out of the 15 articles were balanced in that they explored skeptical arguments in detail and tried to get to the scientific truth.
In an August 6 Family Circle article entitled "Danger in the House," the author warns of a "chemical invasion" from cleaning solutions and garden pesticides that "pose potential health risks ranging from allergic reactions to cancer." The article mentions no scientists who question these risks nor does it mention what level of exposure is needed before these ill health effects occur (just about all substances, natural and artificial, are harmful at some level). And the author uses the flimsy anecdotal case of a mother who blamed garden pesticides sprayed in her neighborhood for her daughters' stomach aches and vomiting (which could have had any number of causes), even though she didn't know what pesticides were being sprayed. The April
McCall's ran a slightly less hysterical article on garden pesticides, but urged readers to contact the National Coalition Against the Issue of Pesticides, a radical environmental group that wants to ban pesticides even if they pose a very small risk.
McCall's (February 1996) and Better Homes & Gardens (March 1996) warned of pesticide residues in baby food, and these articles also contained no arguments casting doubt on pesticides dangers, although
McCall's did quote a doctor saying that "the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables are far, far greater than the risks." The article pointed out that babies and children are more sensitive to pesticides than adults, but never let readers know that government sets pesticide standards to account for individuals who are 1,000 times more sensitive than average. The articles also recommend that parents buy more expensive organic baby food, without mentioning the natural pesticide residues that may be contained in these foods and pose the same (small) risk.
Three stories in Mademoiselle (June 1996),
Glamour (April 1996), and Weight Watchers (June 1996) that reported on the alleged link between chemicals and breast cancer never mentioned that the largest study ever conducted found no correlation between that disease and synthetic chemicals such as DDT and PCBs.
Weight Watchers even condemned scientific studies that pointed to other possible causes such as genetics and diet as sexist because they "suggested it was a woman's fault if she developed breast cancer."
The magazines that covered the newer chemical scare about "environmental estrogens" that allegedly affect reproductive health didn't fare much better. The two stories in
Mademoiselle (June 1996) and Glamour (April 1996) at least aired skeptical viewpoints but gave those opinions only a fraction of the space devoted to arguments for the scare. And both stories ignored important counter-arguments to some of the "facts" asserted by environmentalists.
Glamour, for instance, did not report that the study that found declining sperm counts, a supposed effect of synthetic chemicals, had been severely criticized by many respected scientists and in an editorial in the very scientific journal that originally published it.
Mademoiselle did mention in parentheses a new conflicting study that found that sperm counts have actually increased in the U.S. But the article did not mention how the new study casts doubts on the old study's finding of declining sperm counts by highlighting the geographic variation in sperm counts that the old study did not account for. Neither article mentioned that humans are exposed to far more natural estrogens from plants than to synthetic estrogen-licking chemicals.
The only story to mention pesticides' benefits in producing an affordable, abundant supply of fruits and vegetables was a July
Better Homes & Gardens article that quoted an industry spokesman saying that he'd "rather take a chance on one ppb [parts per billion] in the food than on having no food at all." Unfortunately, the article then undercuts balance and accuracy by stating, without any evidence, that "concern about pesticide residue ... will become a moot point as the quality of organic produce continues to improve." This is wishful thinking. Agricultural experts such as the Hudson Institute's Dennis Avery, the former senior agricultural analyst for the U.S. Department of State, point out that crop yields from organic farms are typically less than half of those from conventional, high-yield farms, and that organic farms show no signs of catching up anytime soon.
The only two articles that critically examined chemical scares were stories in
Good Housekeeping (September) and Ladies' Home Journal (March) that pointed out the lack of scientific evidence behind claims that artificial sweeteners were harmful. An article in the January
Glamour that has dentists rate natural toothpastes also deserves kudos because it points out that natural isn't always good and artificial isn't always bad. The dentists note that many of the natural toothpastes lack fluoride, which provides the most vital protection against decay, and that many of the toothpastes' natural ingredients such as baking soda and sea salt may wear down tooth enamel.
On the bright side, the magazines proved very capable of putting minor health effects from food ingredients in perspective. Most of the nine articles on the fat substitute olestra were just as good, if not better, than those published in the mainstream media. Six stories were careful to mention that only some people get side effects such as diarrhea, and that olestra snacks are fortified with vitamins to make up for the nutrients that olestra inhibits the body from receiving from other foods. Two articles in
Weight Watchers (March and June) went over the arguments of olestra's defenders superficially, and only one article was completely one-sided against olestra and this was clearly marked in
Woman's Day (July 16) as an opinion piece. McCall's gave the most balanced coverage of all by noting that the percentage of olestra snackers suffering side effects in studies was virtually the same as that of the non-olestra snackers suffering side effects. All three stories on the flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate reported that most people don't suffer allergic reactions to it.
Drinking Water/Chlorine. Women's magazines also featured many warnings about unsafe drinking water. Unless she were to read one balanced article about risks in the April 23
Woman's Day, a subscriber to these magazines would likely never know that "the American water supply is one of the safest in the world, and outbreaks of contamination ... are very rare." This was the only balanced article of the six articles that dealt with water. The other five were scare-mongering stories that did not even present another side to their points of view.
With titles like "What's in your water?" and "Troubled waters," these articles usually couldn't see the algae for the lake. They vastly overstated drinking water's risks and failed to distinguish the real risks in water systems. For instance, articles in
Good Housekeeping (November 1995), Parents (March), and Mademoiselle (September) uncritically reported an alarmist study by the Environmental Working Group about agricultural pesticide runoff in water and treated pesticides as if they were as serious a problem as cryptosporidium and other waterborne bacteria. But as agricultural expert Avery has written, "The fact is that field application of pesticides is not contaminating drinking water. The only pesticide residues exceeding good health standards in recent EPA and state surveys have been from known pollution sites."
One of the most ironic aspects of the water stories is that they routinely bash chlorine as unsafe, even though chlorine is the chemical that provides the most effective protection against waterborne diseases. Bizarre as it may seem, while the World Health Organization pursues chlorination of the world's drinking water systems as one of its top priorities, the July
Better Homes & Gardens suggests that Americans stop putting chlorine in their pools! A subheading in
Good Housekeeping asked, "Is chlorine bad for you?" Mademoiselle charged that "chlorine, normally a water safety hero because it kills most bacteria, produces cancer-causing by-products."
Good Housekeeping did at least quote a scientist who says, "The risk of microbial contamination far outweighs the smaller increased risk of cancer." Yet none of the stories illustrated the risk of not using chlorine by informing readers what happened after Peru stopped chlorinating its water in the early '80s: a cholera epidemic that so far has killed 10,000 people.
As for the possible cancer risks of chlorine by-products, the award-winning cancer researcher Bruce Ames of the University of California-Berkeley (who, incidentally, was not quoted in any of the articles) points out that at the levels humans are exposed to, chlorine by-products in tap and swimming pool water are less carcinogenic than peanut butter, which contains the mold
The story that the magazines all issued is that because the federal government issues top-down regulations that cost municipalities up to $37 billion a year (according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute) in chasing small risks such as pesticides and chlorine by-products, the municipalities often don't have the resources or the flexibility to fully pursue larger local risks like
Passive Smoke. In Graham's survey, almost 80 percent of women believed that environmental tobacco smoke or passive smoke was a serious health hazard, compared with slightly over 60 percent of men who believed this was so. Judging from the coverage of this issue in women's magazines, this may be another case where women's perceptions may be shaped or reinforced by the periodicals they read. Of five articles that covered the alleged health risk of passive smoke, only one featured any skeptical arguments. A December, 1995
Weight Watchers article proclaimed, "Mindful of secondhand-smoke risks, many cities are banning smoking in public places," without ever questioning if the risks were real. An April 23
Woman's Day article entitled "Health Scares: Real or Not" that did a good job of deflating other scares such as dirty water, uncritically accepts the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) estimate that passive smoke causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths a year. It is only in a four-page
Better Homes & Gardens article that a skeptical view is even presented, and this article spends just two paragraphs quoting a Tobacco Institute spokesman who criticized the EPA and said passive smoke risks are "not even slight."
However, none of these articles gave readers a clue that it is not just tobacco industry spokesmen who question the EPA's findings on passive smoke. The non-partisan Congressional Research Service, for one, has concluded that "the statistical record does not appear to support a conclusion that there are substantial health effects of passive smoking." The CRS noted that under circumstances of conventional studies, the EPA's finding "is not statistically significant." Steve Milloy, president of the Environmental Policy Analysis Network, have noted that even the risk the EPA did find (1.19) is so tiny that some experts don't even consider it a real risk. He notes that there are higher correlations between yogurt and ovarian cancer (2), whole ilk and lung cancer (2.14), and abortion and breast cancer (1.5), than there is between passive smoke and lung cancer.
The September Parents ran a one-sided article entitled "Smoking is Child Abuse" that blames passive smoke for a number of childhood illnesses. It quotes Dr. Joseph DiFranza as saying, "A judge should know whether an adult seeking custody of a youngster smokes, so the child isn't placed in an unhealthy environment." However, the article does not note that even DiFranza has acknowledged in a medical journal article that not all studies show these effects. Some researchers also question the notion that passive smoke could cause an illness such as middle ear disease when smoking itself has never been found to cause this illness. An article presenting both sides suggesting caution when smoking around children would have been appropriate, but this article is too one-sided and alarmist in the face of uncertain scientific research.
Recycling. According to women's magazines, recycling is always good. Out of 15 articles that mentioned recycling, there was not one skeptical argument presented that sometimes recycling is impractical and wastes resources. A statement typical of the philosophy of these articles came from an article in the June
Better Homes & Gardens that showcased products such as a yardbird made from old garden tools. The article said, "For recycling to be successful, consumers must make the process profitable for manufacturers by purchasing products made from recycled materials." But should manufacturers make recycled products if they're not profitable? Some reporters in the mainstream media are now breaking a taboo and asking this question. An article in the
New York Times Magazine said that recycling not only is more costly than landfilling, it also is sometimes "a messy way to try to help the environment" and has environmental costs associated with it, citing examples of energy wasted by additional garbage trucks that have to pick up recycled materials.
Alcohol. One area where women's magazines have a better record at reporting on comparative risks is in articles weighing the health benefits of moderate drinking against the hazards of excess drinking. An article in
McCall's (May) and two in Good Housekeeping (May and September) reported on the announcement in Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines that moderate consumption of alcohol can lower the risk of heart disease. The articles note, however, that drinking can be hazardous with medications, during pregnancy, or in excess. Unfortunately, another article in
Good Housekeeping (August 1996) focuses on the "overlooked dangers" alcohol poses to women without mentioning its health benefits. And a "To Do" article in the January
Weight Watchers on hangovers ended by saying, "And remember: Alcohol is a drug, so it's best not to drink in the first place."
Nannyism. The biggest risk issues women's magazine take on have to do with household products. Frequently, there are articles that give good advice about how to select the safest products for children and how to monitor children using these products. However, there is a disturbing tendency in seven articles for the authors to act as a national nanny and preach to readers what they should and shouldn't buy. Articles in
Woman's Day (June 4 and Aug. 6) tell mothers not to allow guns to be kept in the house.
Woman's Day (Feb. 1) and Parents (March) tell moms not to let kids play with BB guns. In these cases, the authors are not serving their readers by informing of risks, they are crossing the line into substituting their value judgments for those of their readers. Many of these articles also fail to point out that the product isn't as much of a danger as is the lack of parental supervision. For instance, a June 4
Woman's Day article recommended that parents not buy baby walkers because they injured 25,000 children each year. But the article failed to note that according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, over 20,000 children who are not in baby walkers also are injured falling down the stairs each year. A much better article on how to manage risks comes from August
Parents. The article describes a possible hazard that may occur when lead in imported miniblinds breaks down into dust particles and children lick the blinds. But it quotes someone who points out that this can be taken care of by washing the blinds yearly.
Ladies' Home Journal's Valuable Advice. This study reviewed 56 mentions of science and risk issues. Of those, 35 -- more than half -- were completely one-sided and did not even acknowledge a skeptical view. Six include an opposing view but gave it much less ink and discussed it superficially. Only 15 were balanced articles that put risks in perspective by reference to scientific findings. Clearly, women and families have enough to worry about and don't need new, baseless fears added to their burden. Indeed, many women would be interested in articles that report how much government regulations for tiny risks cost them and their families. The Small Business Administration places the costs of regulation at almost $7000 per household. This cost is passed on to women and families in terms of higher prices and less competition and product innovation.
The article that, by far, provided the best overall coverage of health and science issues appeared in the March issue of
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One reason that no team wants to take a chance on signing Barry Bonds: The perjury counts from his BALCO grand jury testimony seem to be splitting like amoebas. On Monday he had four counts of perjury, and on Tuesday it suddenly became 14. As any biology teacher will tell you, that's reproduction by binary fission ... who knows where it will end? By June there could be millions of counts, and perhaps a new mammal species.
Bonds' legal team objected to technical flaws in the original indictment. By law, the government can accuse a defendant of only one crime per count of an indictment. Bonds lawyer Dennis Riordan contended that the indictment accused Bonds of telling as many as five lies in a single perjury count. Judge Susan Illston agreed, and ordered the government to rewrite the document. The new indictment broke each of the old perjury charges into multiple new ones.
This actually changes nothing, really. Bonds still faces a maximum of 30 months in jail if found guilty on all counts, same as before. It's just that now, all the counts are proportioned in smaller, bite-sized pieces.
You know, it really frosts me. Why would a major league team not offer a contract to an aging outfielder with no speed and bad knees who has a reputation as a clubhouse cancer, probably took cattle steroids for several years and has criminal counts that seemingly multiply like rabbits? Must be collusion.


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My mom got married this past weekend! She was such a beautiful bride. Seriously. Beautiful. With a capital "B". I got to be her matron of honor, which was just an amazing honor. I have to take a minute to brag on her because she just glowed with happiness and love. We adore her new husband, David. He is absolutely perfect for her in every way. And he has a wonderful family who has welcomed us with such love. I am now the lone daughter in a sea of 4 brothers- but I have some killer sisters-in-law to make up for it! Here are some pictures from the glorious day taken by Priscilla, photographer extraordinaire: (and just for the record- no we're not all giants, my mother is just tiny!)
On a whole other subject, Sadie is loving school. Today she rode the bus home for the first time. She practically begged me to let her ride the bus. I had tons of reservations about this. I had flashbacks of my bus riding days- watching the kid down the street light up a cigarette in the back seat, learning about sex for the first time on old bus #9135, of the bus driver running over a pig that was crossing the street (only in Kentucky, folks!) and how stinking hot the bus can get in the middle of August! But against my better judgement, I let her ride the bus anyway. There are only elementary kids riding her bus, so I hoped, at least, that she could hold off learning about sex and smoking with no older kids on the bus! She did great! She is also making lots of new friends. She says one boy in her class loves her and colors her pictures because he loves her! Ahhh, to be 5 again and have love come in the form of coloring pages!
It feels like, to me, that our adoption is dead in the water. Up until a few weeks ago I was gathering papers and making phone calls, etc. I felt like I was making progress. Now I am just waiting. There is nothing for me to do right now but wait on our case worker. Everything is out of my hands and I am just praying for patience. Once this phase is over, I'll switch to praying that the government can for once be swift and efficient and move our paperwork quickly!
In the mean time, though, I've started writing a novel, which is something I've always wanted to do. A dear friend of mine had a genius idea for a book and ask if I'd coauthor. So that project is underway- I can't share the details, but I can say that it will be a bestseller and one day you'll all be able to buy it at your local bookstore! And then you can say that you knew me when I was a just a little, small town blogger! Hey- it can't hurt to dream, can it?
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A former political prisoner and Hunger Striker Raymond has been centrally involved in the formulation of Sinn Féin's political programme for over twenty years.
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He is Deputy Chairperson of the Justice Committee and Sinn Féin Assembly Group Leader.
Raymond has a keen interest in sport, and has worked closely with Derry City Football Club on the proposed regeneration of the Brandywell Stadium.
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Tuesday marks one month since a runaway train derailed and exploded, leveling part of Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
The town sits just 10 miles from the Maine border.
The derailment and explosion killed 47 people and destroyed 30 buildings in Lac-Megantic's downtown area.
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Investigators have said improper brake force allowed the train to roll downhill 7 miles before going off the tracks in Lac-Megantic.
Seventy-two cars of crude oil slid derailed. Authorities are also working to figure out why the crude oil caught fire and exploded so easily.
The train was operated by Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. Canadian officials have launched a criminal investigation into the incident.
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The disaster has also prompted officials in the United States to take a closer look at rail safety.
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Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, and others want to turn your living room into a Web-enabled entertainment center. Roland wants to make it into a full-featured karaoke parlor. Their new "VIMA" keyboard is a bizarre mash-up of digital piano, digital media hub, and karaoke machine. Plug in your iPod, hit center cancel to remove vocals, plug in one or two mics, and the keyboard transforms into a karaoke workstation. The keyboard can even store digital audio, photos, and videos for making custom music videos or karaoke accompaniment, with full support for lyrics display. It's either the perfect way to start your own karaoke bar, or, if you believe the Roland press release, to create "customized family entertainment." Coming hot on the heels of the do-all entertainment center / DJ-VJ station / Windows PC synth MiKo, the VIMA is a further sign that music keyboard makers want in on the battle for the living room. But will it catch on outside Japan? (Hint: large quantities of your favorite alcoholic beverage might help the customized family entertainment.)
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Jake Freeman scored in the ninth minute against Dartmouth Saturday (Gil Talbot).
HANOVER, N.H. – The Crimson got out to a fast start, taking a 1-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the game, but the lead wouldn't hold as the Harvard men's soccer team dropped a 3-1 decision to Ivy foe Dartmouth Saturday afternoon. The loss bumps Harvard to 2-9-3 overall and 0-4-1in Ivy play while Dartmouth improves to 8-6-0 on the season and keeps it Ivy title hopes alive with a 4-1-0 league record.
The freshman class of the Crimson has provided a number of boosts this season, and it was certainly the case against the Big Green as rookie Jake Freeman gave the guests a 1-0 lead just 8:37 into the game. Sophomore defenseman Matt Sheeleigh controlled the ball near the top of the box and sent a cross in to Freeman, who wrapped a shot around the Dartmouth keeper for a quick 1-0 edge. It marked Freeman's third goal of the season, which ties him for the team lead.
Captain Richard Smith tested Dartmouth goalie Noah Cohen soon after the goal, but Cohen stood tall for the stop. From there, the Big Green focused on the equalizer, and its efforts paid off in the 23rd minute when Alex Adelabu dribbled in for a score to knot the game at a goal apiece. Dartmouth kept the pressure on and ended the half with a significant 10-3 edge in shots, while the Crimson defense kept the score tied.
The teams traded looks through the first half of the second stanza, but a defensive breakdown by the Crimson allowed Dartmouth to claim its first lead of the game. In the 77th minute, Adelabu snuck behind the Crimson defense and put away his one-on-one chance with Harvard goalie Evan Mendez, giving the hosts a 2-1 lead. Adelabu had a hand in Dartmouth's insurance score as well, crossing a ball that Alberto Gorini put away in the 83rd minute to secure the 3-1 win for the Big Green.
Dartmouth finished with an 18-6 edge in shots and a 7-4 advantage in corner kicks. Mendez ended the day with four saves while Cohen needed just three stops in the victory.
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Worst Emmy Hair: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Size Two wore her hair for a small town prom. Or a small town wedding circa 1995.
How the f&ck does this get past security? How the f&ck did she find a stylist even willing to do this? Ken Paves wouldn't do this! Even Ken Paves would draw the line at this! I'm telling you…when you have to go out of state to get your hair did, it's wrong.
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In our trailer breakdown of Ridley Scott's Prometheus, we spied the head of that lovable space jockey whose carcass popped up in the original Alien. Now new images showing what appears to be a space jockey mask have surfaced. But wait, there's a twist!
Here's the shot from the trailer. As you can see, a fleshy version of this mask is under glass. We included a cut-out shot of the original space jockey from Alien for additional comparison.
The above images came from Cinemart, who claim that they got the snaps from a secret source in cahoots with someone who works on the Prometheus art department. Cinemart also revealed that this mask is, "smaller, human-sized and designed specifically for an actor to wear and described as the face design for the alien."
Someone is wearing this? We're starting to think the Space Jockey might be hiding something inside it's craggy remains. Is the gas mask-like face really just a suit to slip on, much like the aliens in Independence Day? Or maybe there's a space jockey still alive and running about inside the giant ring spaceship.
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Federal and State Manifest Regulations were effective on September 5, 2006. Information on the regulations, as well as additional information on hazardous waste manifesting, can be found on DTSC's Hazardous Waste Manifest Information webpage.
The Hazardous Waste Tracking System (HWTS) generates reports on hazardous waste shipments for generators, transporters, and TSDFs. Information from 1993 to the present is available through the Reports link at the top of this page. You can retrieve information from 10 public reports on the Reports page. The Reports are subject to the limitations contained in the official Disclaimer and Data Limitations Statement. Starting in 2004, recent total counts of manifests and tonnage may be overstated because of duplicate manifests totals.
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.Net Version has been released in limited editions. Please call us if you require a demo; only available on CD currently as size of download with .Net Framework 2.0 exceeds 75mb.
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Parameter 173 for commision based on profit made eg: 0-10=0;11-20=1;21-100=10
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In salesperson menu (Debtors Module) ; you now have an extra option to view sales per month per debtor etc . . creates a csv loadable in Excel. Great for analysing sales for particular debtors over many months. (with profit analysis)
The .Net Version release in now final for 26 March 2007. Pricing will be annouced once finalised.
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A Prosperous and happy New Year ! !
We on track with the development of the .Net version of the POS system for Vista; a few minor problems around licensing and whether we should also keep the code backward compatible to windows XP and 98SE. Since we will be running both dos and .net version together many changes have to be still tested and hopefully the release version will be fairly bug free. You always will still have the dos version which is very stable and bug free to fall back on
If you have loaded an update before the 11 Jan 2007 and after Dec 2006 PLEASE download this new update as the dayend and backup is changed.
August to December 2006
This is hopefully our last update for the DOS version of the CompuByte Software. As most of you already know we in the completing stage of the windows vista version of our software to be released 15 days after the official Vista release 15 February 2007.
In the meantime we are preparing the current dos version of the software to flawlessly integrate with the windows version under .Net 3.0. By doing so we have to increase the size of the various fields in the stock program this update comes to you after being tested for almost 4 months.
This is the major things it will change.
1) Stock fields increased per record by 2400(bits) – That is why you have to make sure the update is done on your main machine(server) while all the terminals are off or exited to DOS. If you have many branches the updates must be simultaneously done at all branches to maintain data integrity. Please also make a FULL backup using the compubyte backup.exe program from the previous updates.
2) Many new features have been added to the current CompuByte DOS version which will greatly enhance the functionality of the program.
3) The first time you get to the MAIN MENU of the program it will begin doing all the data conversions for you.
4) You must re-index the stock file if you want to use the new PLU and CATALOGUE searches ; using * and \ (see 6 below). Re-Indexing is done from the stock program using print stock sheets and than inserting INDEX at the index field.
5) If you using Hamachi an have multiple branches ; you can now connect directly to the branches and move between programs very much quicker; also you can now use windows remote desktop to take control of any PC on your network.
Software Enhancements:-
1) New Menu item's on Page Two of POS system: View Stock History and view AUDIT files of any Stock Item. Chose Option 3.
2) You can now have up to a 100 salespersons (before restricted to 19)
3) Credit Notes can now be checked against Invoices and invoice could be retrieved with the stock items supplied; you can than choose which items to credit etc.
4) If you using sizing matrixes you cannot now edit the size grid in the stock program; you have to do all edited of stock items from the Goods-Receiving program using or creating an account call adjustments.
5) Viewing of the usage of Access Codes can now be opened in Excel as a CSV file directory. The files is called notes.acc
6) Now you can search in the PLU code field using the * (star); previously you used the / (slash) to search for items in description; also searching in catalogue is now possible using the \ (back slash).
7) Setting promotions using start date and time etc has been further enhanced to use the (at) to start # to end etc.
More new an innovative functionality added to the ordering system to allow better functionality.
9) You now can set selling margins in the group description and at the individual item level: Example if Group Two is called Jeep TOPS and has a set markup of twenty five percent; all you do is insert next to the description of the group [M1:25 . You can also set a markup for an individual item by inserting [M1:35 in the Special Parameter's field. (You must have the open square bracket).
10) Vat Reports in the Debtors Section for Cash and Accounts SALES now exclude branch sales and also has a better report analysis.
July 2006
1) Inter branch transfers further automated; so now if one or more branches were down(no internet connectivity); as soon as they come up; you can enter 2 at auto send exp file and all files that were not sent will be sent as required. (no need to manually copy files over)
2) New companies cannot be now created from the Main Menu without a supervisor code from the default company.
3) If you have your branches (companies) on a VPN using hamachi you can now from the main menu backup all the branches information to your local drive by setting parameter 181 with each branches ip's.(just dont include your local drives IP). BackupB.exe can also be used to automate this backup with the windows schedular. Also from your main menu you can set the drives to use local data. For the most latest info you have to at the branches use the file transfer option on the Point of Sale menu(right arrow twice from menu parameter 128 and 181 must be set to use this function)
4) Backup program now has branch backups on the menu (press f1 while backing up you can choose a menu)
June 2006
1) Thanks to Yunus (micromedia) - we have now intergrated revolving credit (At terms prompt Debtors insert M3 M6 etc where M? is number of months to pay) - Cash drawer also opens when receipt generated.
2) Now when END key is press in Point of Sale at amount tendered you can press Left arrow or Up arrow and go back to invoicing etc. (old way you had to press enter till you see number of copies than press the left arrow)
3) Improved the handling of incompleted documents (power out or printer offline) - must complete that document only before continuing.
4) Cash Draw also now opens on CashUp - Z reading.
5) Backup further improved .
6) Stock request from branches (sizing) now intergrated fully.
May 2006
1) Paid outs now handled on lpt2 / lpt3 printers.
2) Inter Branch transfers over VPN now also indicated those transfer that occured while drives were down and storage when down remains in \A? account directory.
3) Paid Outs faster spool'ed to LPT2 (2nd Printer) and now kick draw support for all types of printers that support the kick cable. [P in cash draw parameter will activate >Control codes chr$(27);chr$(112);chr$(1) )
4) If you using a VPN (wireless network or ADSL network) paramater 180 ; you can now book a size from any of the branches connected.All you do is insert the usual * (star) and than the size you requesting; if the branch you requesting from has a size it will get a messge to send you the stock - Also note now the .exp files are auto sent to the branches if you doing a cash sale and choose to send the stock to a branch.
Please note we now also have FREE training for all CompuByte Service Contract clients at our Ranburg Office.
April 2006
1) Thanks to MOD Fashions (Brakpan - Mohamed) we now have a switch to paramter 42 where a percentage to cost CODED for lable print can be activated. This is useful if you want your cost on the lable to be displayed in a coded form with vat included - this does not affect your cost on the sytem which will still be ex-vat.
2) Better page print outs for report generator when using USB printers
3) VPN functionality improved > add del x:ip. in your start-1.bat file before i.bat or menu.bat. Updates terminal bat files if more than one POS terminal exist --> will not search drives not available on ADSL or wireless networks.
4) By pressing F1 and V in POS you can view stock at branches with an improved interface.
5) In parameter 180 you can now force the main menu to return to local drive by inserting
where C is the home drive. This is useful when using ADSL with VPN
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6) Now you can just scan thermal barcode slips when doing receiving of stock from branches or Head Office . . A option for memory stick update is also available.
March 2006
1) Now when viewing (Y readings) - layout enhanced so that you can identify what column is being seen when you have many terminals.
2) Promotion priced stock items can now be scheduled by time:- So you could set promotions on items to start at a time on a specific date and end at a time on the same date or on another date - Promotions are set in the stock program; view the item you want to put on promotion and then insert a minus (-) to set the promotion, the F6 to F9 keys can be used to repeat the promotions.
Febraury 2006
1) Corrected printing of cheque and card info on stationery - with new payment method.
2) Payment methods further improved : Example if the value of the cash slip is R100 and the person inserts R10 at cash the prompt at card will auto display R90 ---> Thanks to MB Sports (Hammond)
3) For those who do inter branch transfers from cash sales ; you can now enter 0 (zero) at amount tendered and immediately insert the branch number to send the stock to. Please note parameter 180 must have the word TRANSFER in it and the branch account where you sending the stock to must have <BRA next to the name of the branch.
January 2006
1) Thanks to Joseph(Mamab Computer) we have now incorporated extra security for debtors control. If a cashier knows a debtors account number, the cashier could use the number and invoice or receipt, whilst password parameters can be set to disable this; it's not the best alternative. Now you can insert an extra security code in your debtors in the more details section at the Trade Reference/Security prompt- All you do is insert a capital S and a colon than the security code you require. Example: S:123456 will set a security code of 123456. Now when ever a debtor purchases he has to enter his/her security code or scan his/her bar coded card which can be printed with the new labeler program using choice"BD".


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